The field of Highly Frustrated Magnetism has developed and expanded considerably over the last 15 years. Originating with canonical geometric frustration of interactions, it today extends over other phenomena with many degrees of freedom, including magneto-elastic couplings, orbital degrees of freedom, dilution effects, and electron doping. It is also demonstrated that the concept of frustration impacts many other fields in physics beyond magnetism. This book represents a state-of-the-art review aimed at a broad audience with tutorial chapters and more topical ones, which encompass solid-state chemistry as well as experimental and theoretical physics.
Author(s): John T. Chalker (auth.), Claudine Lacroix, Philippe Mendels, Frédéric Mila (eds.)
Series: Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences 164
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2011
Language: English
Pages: 682
Tags: Magnetism, Magnetic Materials; Structural Materials; Engineering, general
Front Matter....Pages i-xxvi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Geometrically Frustrated Antiferromagnets: Statistical Mechanics and Dynamics....Pages 3-22
Introduction to Quantum Spin Liquids....Pages 23-41
Front Matter....Pages 43-43
Neutron Scattering and Highly Frustrated Magnetism....Pages 45-78
NMR and µSR in Highly Frustrated Magnets....Pages 79-105
Optical Techniques for Systems with Competing Interactions....Pages 107-128
Front Matter....Pages 129-129
The Geometries of Triangular Magnetic Lattices....Pages 131-154
Highly Frustrated Magnetism in Spinels....Pages 155-175
Experimental Studies of Pyrochlore Antiferromagnets....Pages 177-206
Kagomé Antiferromagnets: Materials Vs. Spin Liquid Behaviors....Pages 207-238
Front Matter....Pages 239-239
Magnetization Plateaus....Pages 241-267
Spin-Lattice Coupling in Frustrated Antiferromagnets....Pages 269-291
Spin Ice....Pages 293-329
Spin Nematic Phases in Quantum Spin Systems....Pages 331-362
Front Matter....Pages 363-363
Schwinger Bosons Approaches to Quantum Antiferromagnetism....Pages 365-377
Variational Wave Functions for Frustrated Magnetic Models....Pages 379-406
Quantum Spin Liquids and Fractionalization....Pages 407-435
Quantum Dimer Models....Pages 437-479
Numerical Simulations of Frustrated Systems....Pages 481-511
Exact Results in Frustrated Quantum Magnetism....Pages 513-536
Strong-Coupling Expansion and Effective Hamiltonians....Pages 537-559
Front Matter....Pages 561-561
Mobile Holes in Frustrated Quantum Magnets and Itinerant Fermions on Frustrated Geometries....Pages 563-586
Metallic and Superconducting Materials with Frustrated Lattices....Pages 587-627
Frustration in Systems with Orbital Degrees of Freedom....Pages 629-670
Back Matter....Pages 671-679
