Spinons and triplons in spatially anisotropic frustrated antiferromagnets

Nature Physics

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 790-795

  Kohno, Masanori ^a,b   Starykh, Oleg A ^c   Balents, Leon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; KINETIC ENERGY; KINETICS; QUANTUM THEORY;

ELEMENTARY EXCITATIONS; FITTING PARAMETERS; FRUSTRATED MAGNET; GENERIC FEATURES; HEISENBERG ANTIFERROMAGNETS; INELASTIC NEUTRONS; INTERCHAIN COUPLING; SPIN CORRELATIONS;

ANTIFERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS;

EID: 35748968174     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys749     Document Type: Article

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