Excitation spectra of disordered dimer magnets near quantum criticality

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 111, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Vojta, Matthias ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFERROMAGNETIC PHASE; EXCITATION SPECTRUM; LOW-ENERGY EXCITATIONS; MAGNETIC BRAGG PEAKS; MAGNETIC EXCITATIONS; MODELING FEATURES; NUMERICAL CALCULATION; QUANTUM CRITICALITY;

MAGNETS;

CRITICALITY (NUCLEAR FISSION);

EID: 84884261098     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.097202     Document Type: Article

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