Quantum solitons in the sawtooth lattice

D. Sen, B. Shastry, R. Walstedt, R. Cava

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Abstract

We study the sawtooth lattice of a coupled spin 1/2 Heisenberg system, a variant of the railroad-trestle lattice. The ground state of this system is twofold degenerate with periodic boundary conditions and supports kink-antikink excitations, which are distinct in this case, unlike the railroad-trestle lattice. The resulting low-temperature thermodynamics is compared with the recently discovered delafossites (Formula presented).

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)6401-6405
Number of pages5
JournalPhysical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
Volume53
Issue number10
DOIs
StatePublished - 1996
Externally publishedYes

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
  • Condensed Matter Physics

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