Critical behavior of two- and three-dimensional ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic spin-ice systems using the effective-field renormalization group technique

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2001, Pages

  Garcia Adeva, Angel J ^a   Huber, David L ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

FERROMAGNETIC MATERIAL;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; GEOMETRY; MAGNETISM; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PHASE TRANSITION; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; TECHNIQUE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0034895619     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.64.014418     Document Type: Article

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