Publication Date:
2015-02-04
Description:
The connection between electronic and structural degrees of freedom—whether successive, coincident, or causal—suffuses the study of phase transitions. The Shastry–Sutherland model of a planar network of coupled spin dimers (1) and its physical realization in SrCu2(BO3)2 (SCBO) provide a fundamental quantum mechanical test of this connection at the onset of...
Keywords:
Letters
Print ISSN:
0027-8424
Electronic ISSN:
1091-6490
Topics:
Biology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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