Schwinger-boson approach to the kagome antiferromagnet with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions: Phase diagram and dynamical structure factors

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Messio, L ^a   Cepas O ^b   Lhuillier, C ^a  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

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EID: 77954822663     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.81.064428     Document Type: Article

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