Physics – Condensed Matter – Strongly Correlated Electrons
Scientific paper
2005-06-14
Prog. Theor. Phys. Suppl. 160, 361 (2005)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Strongly Correlated Electrons
22 pages, proceedings of YKIS2004 workshop
Scientific paper
10.1143/PTPS.160.361
Above the saturation field, geometrically frustrated quantum antiferromagnets have dispersionless low-energy branches of excitations corresponding to localized spin-flip modes. Transition into a partially magnetized state occurs via condensation of an infinite number of degrees of freedom. The ground state below the phase transition is a magnon crystal, which breaks only translational symmetry and preserves spin-rotations about the field direction. We give a detailed review of recent works on physics of such phase transitions and present further theoretical developments. Specifically, the low-energy degrees of freedom of a spin-1/2 kagom\'e antiferromagnet are mapped to a hard hexagon gas on a triangular lattice. Such a mapping allows to obtain a quantitative description of the magnetothermodynamics of a quantum kagom\'e antiferromagnet from the exact solution for a hard hexagon gas. In particular, we find the exact critical behavior at the transition into a magnon crystal state, the universal value of the entropy at the saturation field, and the position of peaks in temperature- and field-dependence of the specific heat. Analogous mapping is presented for the sawtooth chain, which is mapped onto a model of classical hard dimers on a chain. The finite macroscopic entropies of geometrically frustrated magnets at the saturation field lead to a large magnetocaloric effect.
Tsunetsugu Hirokazu
Zhitomirsky Michael E.
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