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Exact eigenstates of highly frustrated spin lattices probed in high fields

J Schnack1, H-J Schmidt1, A Honecker2, J Schulenburg3 and J Richter4

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Strongly frustrated antiferromagnets such as the magnetic molecule {Mo72Fe30}, the kagome, or the pyrochlore lattice exhibit a variety of fascinating properties like low-lying singlets, magnetization plateaus as well as magnetization jumps. During recent years exact many-body eigenstates could be constructed for several of these spin systems. These states become ground states in high magnetic fields, and they also lead to exotic behavior. A key concept to an understanding of these properties is provided by independent localized magnons. The energy eigenvalue of these n-magnon states scales linearly with the number n of independent magnons and thus with the total magnetic quantum number M = Nsn. In an applied field this results in a giant magnetization jump which constitutes a new macroscopic quantum effect. It will be demonstrated that this behavior is accompanied by a massive degeneracy, an extensive (T = 0)-entropy, and thus a large magnetocaloric effect at the saturation field. The connection to flat band ferromagnetism will be outlined.


PACS

75.50.Ee Antiferromagnetics

75.60.Ej Magnetization curves, hysteresis, Barkhausen and related effects

75.50.Xx Molecular magnets

75.30.Sg Magnetocaloric effect, magnetic cooling

75.30.Ds Spin waves

65.40.G- Other thermodynamical quantities

Subjects

Condensed matter: electrical, magnetic and optical

Condensed matter: structural, mechanical & thermal

Dates

Issue 1 (2006)



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