| Literature DB >> 11019318 |
M E Zhitomirsky1, A Honecker, O A Petrenko.
Abstract
We predict that an external field can induce a spin ordering in highly frustrated classical Heisenberg magnets. We find analytically stabilization of collinear states by thermal fluctuations at a one-third of the saturation field for kagome and garnet lattices and at a half of the saturation field for pyrochlore and frustrated square lattices. This effect is studied numerically for the frustrated square-lattice antiferromagnet by Monte Carlo simulations for classical spins and by exact diagonalization for S = 1/2. The field induced collinear states have a spin gap and produce magnetization plateaus.Year: 2000 PMID: 11019318 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.3269
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