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Effects of Dzyaloshinsky-Moriya Interaction on Planar Rotator Model on Triangular Lattice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 August 2015

Yun-Zhou Sun ,
Lin Yi  and
Jian-Sheng Wang
Yun-Zhou Sun*
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Wuhan Textile University, Wuhan 430073, China
Lin Yi*
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
Jian-Sheng Wang*
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117542, Singapore
*
Corresponding author.Email:syz1979@163.com
Email:yilin@mail.hust.edu.cn
Email:phywjs@nus.edu.sg
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Abstract

The thermodynamic properties and some critical properties of the planar rotator model with chiral Dzyaloshinsky-Moriya (DM) interaction on triangular lattice are analyzed using a hybrid Monte Carlo method. It has been shown that there is a XY-like Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) phase transition in this model. The ground state of this spiral system and the effects of size mismatch are also discussed.

Keywords

07.05.Tp21.60.Ka05.10.Ln75.10.HkCritical temperatureDzyaloshinsky-Moriya interactionMonte-Carlo simulationvortex
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Communications in Computational Physics , Volume 11 , Issue 4 , April 2012 , pp. 1169 - 1181
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Copyright © Global Science Press Limited 2012

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