Elementary excitations and thermodynamics of zig-zag spin ladders with alternating nearest-neighbor exchange interactions

Low Temperature Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 455-467

  Zvyagin, A A ^a,b   Cheranovskii, V O ^c  

^a B VERKIN INSTITUTE FOR LOW TEMPERATURE PHYSICS AND ENGINEERING   (Ukraine)

^b Institute for Solid Research   (Germany)

^c V N KARAZIN KHARKIV NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXCHANGE INTERACTIONS; GROUND STATE; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIZATION; SPIN DYNAMICS; THERMODYNAMICS;

ELEMENTARY EXCITATIONS; EXTERNAL MAGNETIC FIELD; FIRST-ORDER QUANTUM PHASE TRANSITION; INCOMMENSURATE STRUCTURE; LOW-ENERGY EXCITATIONS; SPIN-SPIN INTERACTION; SPONTANEOUS MAGNETIZATION; THERMODYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS;

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

EID: 68349121357     PISSN: 1063777X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3151992     Document Type: Article

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