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Finite Temperature Properties of Quantum Antiferromagnets in a Uniform Magnetic Field in One and Two Dimensions

arXiv:cond-mat/9401040 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.50.258

Abstract

Consider a -dimensional antiferromagnet with a quantum disordered ground state and a gap to bosonic excitations with non-zero spin. In a finite external magnetic field, this antiferromagnet will undergo a phase transition to a ground state with non-zero magnetization, describable as the condensation of a dilute gas of bosons. The finite temperature properties of the Bose gas in the vicinity of this transition are argued to obey a hypothesis of ZERO SCALE-FACTOR UNIVERSALITY for , with logarithmic violations in . Scaling properties of various experimental observables are computed in an expansion in , and exactly in .

27 pages, REVTEX 3.0, 8 Postscript figures appended, YCTP-xyzx

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