Field induced ordering in highly frustrated antiferromagnets.
We predict that an external field can induce a spin ordering in highly frustrated classical Heisenberg magnets. We find analytically stabilization of collinear states by thermal fluctuations at a one-third of the saturation field for kagome and garnet lattices and at a half of the saturation field for pyrochlore and frustrated square lattices. This effect is studied numerically for the frustrated square-lattice antiferromagnet by Monte Carlo simulations for classical spins and by exact diagonalization for S = 1/2. The field induced collinear states have a spin gap and produce magnetization plateaus.
Zhitomirsky
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Theoretische Physik, ETH Hönggerberg, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland.
Honecker
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Petrenko
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