Magnetization Plateaux in Bethe Ansatz Solvable Spin-S Ladders
Date
2003
Authors
Maslen, Mark
Batchelor, Murray
de Gier, J
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American Physical Society
Abstract
We examine the properties of the Bethe ansatz solvable two- and three-leg spin-S ladders. These models include Heisenberg rung interactions of arbitrary strength and thus capture the physics of the spin-S Heisenberg ladders for strong rung coupling. The discrete values derived for the magnetization plateaux are seen to fit with the general prediction based on the Lieb-Schultz-Mattis theorem. We examine the magnetic phase diagram of the spin-1 ladder in detail and find an extended magnetization plateau at the fractional value 〈M〉 = 1/2 in agreement with the experimental observation for the organic polyradical spin-1 ladder compound BIP-TENO.
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Keywords: article; calculation; elementary particle; magnetism; mathematical analysis; optics; physics
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Physical Review B
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