Quantum fluctuations of chirality in one-dimensional spin-1/2 multiferroics: Gapless dielectric response from phasons and chiral solitons

Journal of the Physical Society of Japan

Volumn 77, Issue 12, 2008, Pages

  Furukawa, Shunsuke ^a   Sato, Masahiro ^a   Saiga, Yasuhiro ^b   Onoda, Shigeki ^a  

^a RIKEN   (Japan)

^b SHIBAURA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dielectric response; Multiferroics; Quantum spin systems; Vector spin chirality

Indexed keywords

EID: 57549091209     PISSN: 00319015     EISSN: 13474073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1143/JPSJ.77.123712     Document Type: Article

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