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Field-induced phase transition in Haldane gap spin chains
Ian Affleck1
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Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
A magnetic field closes the Haldane gap and induces an ordering transition in antiferromagnetic chains of integer spin. I will discuss the nature of the transition, including
crystal field terms in the Hamiltonian, and its experimental implications.
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