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Macroscopic Magnetization Jumps due to Independent Magnons in Frustrated Quantum Spin Lattices

2002; American Physical Society; Volume: 88; Issue: 16 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1103/physrevlett.88.167207

1092-0145

J. Schulenburg, A. Honecker, Jürgen Schnack, Johannes Richter, Heinz–Jürgen Schmidt,

Quantum many-body systems

For a class of frustrated spin lattices including the Kagomé lattice we construct exact eigenstates consisting of several independent, localized one-magnon states and argue that they are ground states for high magnetic fields. If the maximal number of local magnons scales with the number of spins in the system, which is the case for the Kagomé lattice, the effect persists in the thermodynamic limit and gives rise to a macroscopic jump in the zero-temperature magnetization curve just below the saturation field. The effect decreases with increasing spin quantum number and vanishes in the classical limit. Thus it is a true macroscopic quantum effect.