Doping-induced magnetization plateaus

authored by
Holger Frahm, Constantin Sobiella
Abstract

The low temperature magnetization process of antiferromagnetic spin-S chains doped with mobile spin-(S-1/2) carriers is studied in an exactly solvable model. For sufficiently high magnetic fields the system is in a metallic phase with a finite gap for magnetic excitations. In this phase which exists for a large range of carrier concentrations x the zero temperature magnetization is determined by x alone. This leads to plateaus in the magnetization curve at a tunable fraction of the saturation magnetization. The critical behaviour at the edges of these plateaus is studied in detail.

Organisation(s)
Institute of Theoretical Physics
Type
Article
Journal
Physical Review Letters
Volume
83
Pages
5579-5582
No. of pages
4
ISSN
0031-9007
Publication date
27.12.1999
Publication status
Published
Peer reviewed
Yes
ASJC Scopus subject areas
General Physics and Astronomy
Electronic version(s)
https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9907258 (Access: Open)
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.5579 (Access: Unknown)
https://doi.org/10.15488/5081 (Access: Open)