Fractional spinon excitations in the quantum heisenberg antiferromagnetic chain

Nature Physics

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 435-441

  Mourigal, Martin ^a,b,c   Enderle, Mechthild ^a   Klöpperpieper, Axel ^d   Caux, Jean Sébastien ^e   Stunault, Anne ^a   Rønnow, Henrik M ^b  

^a INSTITUT LAUE LANGEVIN   (France)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFERROMAGNETISM; GROUND STATE; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; NEUTRON SCATTERING; QUANTUM THEORY;

ELEMENTARY EXCITATIONS; FRACTIONAL SPIN; HEISENBERG ANTIFERROMAGNETIC CHAIN; LINEAR ARRAYS; QUANTUM MANY-BODY SYSTEMS; QUASIPARTICLES; SPECTRAL WEIGHT; SPINON EXCITATIONS;

ANTIFERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS;

EID: 84880570448     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys2652     Document Type: Article

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