{
  "id": "cond-mat/0005486",
  "version": "v2",
  "published": "2000-05-28T17:56:34.000Z",
  "updated": "2001-12-03T14:22:29.000Z",
  "title": "Topological Defects and the Spin Glass Phase of Cuprates",
  "authors": [
    "N. Hasselmann",
    "A. H. Castro Neto",
    "C. Morais Smith"
  ],
  "comment": "7 pages, 2 figures. Final version with some changes and one replaced figure",
  "journal": "Europhysics Letters, V.56, No.6, 15th December 2001, pp. 870-876",
  "doi": "10.1209/epl/i2001-00600-6",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.dis-nn",
    "cond-mat.str-el"
  ],
  "abstract": "We propose that the spin glass phase of cuprates is due to the proliferation of topological defects of a spiral distortion of the antiferromagnet order. Our theory explains straightforwardly the simultaneous existence of short range incommensurate magnetic correlations and complete a-b symmetry breaking in this phase. We show via a renormalization group calculation that the collinear O(3)/O(2) symmetry is unstable towards the formation of local non-collinear correlations. A critical disorder strength is identified beyond which topological defects proliferate already at zero temperature.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v2",
      "updated": "2001-12-03T14:22:29.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "spin glass phase",
      "topological defects",
      "short range incommensurate magnetic correlations",
      "local non-collinear correlations",
      "renormalization group calculation"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 7,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}