Pathology of Schwinger boson mean-field theory for Heisenberg spin models

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 66, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1044171-1044176

  De Silva, Theja N ^a   Ma, Michael ^a   Zhang, Fu Chun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

FERROMAGNETIC MATERIAL;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; ELEMENTARY PARTICLE; ENERGY; MAGNETISM; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MODEL; PHASE TRANSITION; THEORY;

EID: 0036752332     PISSN: 01631829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.66.104417     Document Type: Article

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