2022/03/10 by Snir Meiri, Meiri, Snir, Efi Efrati +1
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism #Quantum many-body systems #Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft) #Theoretical and Computational Physics
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2203.05247
openalex publication_date 2022/03/10 · openalex created_date 2022/07/01 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The resolution of geometric frustration in systems with continuous degrees of freedom often involves a cooperative inhomogeneous response and super-extensive energy scaling. In contrast, the frustration in frustrated Ising-like spin systems is resolved uniformly. In this work we bridge between these two extremes by studying a frustrated model composed of N-state spins, and varying N. The expected cooperative response, observed for large N, is strongly attenuated as N is reduced, in a non-trivial way. Moderate N values show unique topological-like phases not observed before in frustrated models.