Emergence of soliton chirality in a quantum antiferromagnet

Nature Physics

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 159-163

  Braun, Hans Benjamin ^a,b   Kulda, Jiri ^c   Roessli, Bertrand ^b   Visser, Dirk ^d   Krämer, Karl W ^e   Güdel, Hans Ulrich ^e   Böni, Peter ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c INSTITUT LAUE LANGEVIN   (France)

^d RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^f TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; ANTIFERROMAGNETISM; CHIRALITY; COPPER COMPOUNDS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS; NEUTRON SCATTERING; QUANTUM THEORY; SOLITONS; SPIN DYNAMICS;

ANTIFERROMAGNETIC LONG-RANGE ORDERS; ANTIFERROMAGNETIC ORDERINGS; ANTIFERROMAGNETIC SPINS; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; GENERIC SYSTEM; POLARIZED NEUTRON SCATTERING; QUANTUM ANTIFERROMAGNETS; QUANTUM DYNAMICS;

STEREOCHEMISTRY;

EID: 33847248137     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys152     Document Type: Article

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