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Theory of Coexisting Transverse Spin Freezing and Long-Ranged Antiferromagnetic Order in Lightly Doped La2-xSrx CuO4

R. J. Gooding, N. M. Salem, A. Mailhot

cond-matarXiv:cond-mat/9312082

Abstract

We provide an explanation of the spin-freezing transition recently observed by Chou et al. (Phys. Rev. Lett. 71, 2323 (1993)) in La2-xSrx CuO4 for x <= 0.02. We propose that topological excitations of the 2D Heisenberg quantum antiferromagnet having non-coplanar transverse components have a pair-interaction energy that qualitatively and quantitatively agrees with the observed values of spin-freezing temperature as a function of doping.

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