Exact ground states of a frustrated 2D magnet: Deconfined fractional excitations at a first-order quantum phase transition

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 21, 2004, Pages

  Batista, C D ^a   Trugman, S A ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIRST-ORDER QUANTUM PHASE TRANSITION; HEISENBERG MODEL; ONE-DIMENSIONAL (1D) TOPOLOGICAL DEFECTS; QUANTUM HALL EFFECT; TWO-DIMENSIONAL (2D) FRUSTRATED MAGNETS; VALENCE BOND CRYSTALS;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CRYSTALS; DIMERIZATION; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; FERMI LIQUIDS; HALL EFFECT; HAMILTONIANS; HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS; MAGNETISM; MAGNETS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; QUANTUM THEORY;

GROUND STATE;

EID: 42749106653     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.217202     Document Type: Article

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