QUANTUM PHASE TRANSITIONS AND TOPOLOGICAL ORDERS IN SPIN CHAINS AND LADDERS

Dimerized antiferromagnetic spin-1/2 chains and ladders demonstrate quantum critical phase transition, the existence or absence of which is dependent on the dimerization and the dimerization pattern of the chain and the ladder, respectively. The gapped phases can not be distinguished by the conventi...

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Main Author: Pandey, Toplal
Language:en
Published: Laurentian University of Sudbury 2014
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Online Access:https://zone.biblio.laurentian.ca/dspace/handle/10219/2142