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Phase diagram of the S=12 frustrated coupled ladder system

B. Normand, K. Penc, M. Albrecht, and F. Mila
Phys. Rev. B 56, R5736(R) – Published 1 September 1997
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Abstract

We present a theoretical study of the magnetic phase diagram of the frustrated coupled ladder structure realized recently in several materials. This system displays a nondegenerate spin-gap state in the dimer limit and an infinitely degenerate spin-gap state in the regime of weakly coupled zigzag chains. Between these we demonstrate the existence of gapless, magnetically ordered regions whose order is antiferromagnetic close to the honeycomb lattice limit, and incommensurate along the chains when all three magnetic interactions compete.

  • Received 25 March 1997

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.56.R5736

©1997 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

B. Normand

  • Theoretische Physik, ETH-Hönggerberg, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland

K. Penc

  • Max Planck Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme, Bayreuther Strasse 40, D-01187 Dresden, Germany

M. Albrecht and F. Mila

  • Laboratoire de Physique Quantique, Université Paul Sabatier, 118 Route de Narbonne, 31062 Toulouse Cedex, France

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Vol. 56, Iss. 10 — 1 September 1997

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