Exchange anisotropy, disorder, and frustration in diluted, predominantly ferromagnetic, Heisenberg spin systems

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 69, Issue 14, 2004, Pages

  Zhou, Chenggang ^a   Kennett, Malcolm P ^b   Wan, Xin ^c,e   Berciu, Mona ^d   Bhatt, R N ^a  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^e KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC DERIVATIVE; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIAL; GALLIUM; MANGANESE; MANGANESE DERIVATIVE;

ALGORITHM; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; LOW TEMPERATURE; MAGNETISM; MONTE CARLO METHOD; SEMICONDUCTOR; SIMULATION;

EID: 42749106044     PISSN: 01631829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.69.144419     Document Type: Article

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