Abstract
We report the occurrence of a spin-Peierls transition in the quasi-one-dimensional electron gas. In finite quantum wires this transition to an antiferromagnetically ordered ground state leads to localized end states created by the periodic effective potential of a spin-density wave.
- Received 29 September 1998
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.59.1613
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