Kitaev anisotropy induces mesoscopic Z2 vortex crystals in frustrated hexagonal antiferromagnets

Physical Review B

Volumn 93, Issue 10, 2016, Pages

  Rousochatzakis, Ioannis ^a,b   Rössler, Ulrich K ^a   Van Den Brink, Jeroen ^a   Daghofer, Maria ^a,c  

^a IFW DRESDEN   (Germany)

^b University of Minnesota   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

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EID: 84962023232     PISSN: 24699950     EISSN: 24699969     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.93.104417     Document Type: Article

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