Triangular Ising antiferromagnet: Boundary conditions, ground state entropy, and vortices

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Millane, R P ^a   Clare, R M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ENTROPY; GROUND STATE; VORTEX FLOW;

DIMER COVERING; GROUND STATE ENTROPY; NONINTERSECTING STRINGS; TRIANGULAR ISING ANTIFERROMAGNET;

ANTIFERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS;

EID: 33750597897     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.74.051101     Document Type: Article

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