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Journal of Physics C Solid State Physics

Ground state properties of frustrated Ising chains

John Kino Yamaguchi Williams

Published Oct 10, 1981• 16 citations
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Abstract

The ground state properties of several frustrated chains are investigated in a simple physically transparent manner. The ground state energy, magnetisation, nearest-neighbour correlations and zero-point entropy are evaluated by considering explicitly the flipping of well defined spin clusters at certain critical field strengths.
DOI
10.1088/0022-3719/14/28/011

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