Novel Field Induced Quantum Phase Transition of the Kagome Lattice Antiferromagnet
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The S = 1/2 kagomelattice antiferromagnet is investigated by the numerical diagonalization. We successfully obtained the ground-state full magnetization curve for the 42-spin cluster. Based on the finite-size scaling alnalysis including this new result, we consider the quatnum critical magnetization behavior around the 1/3 of the saturation magnetization. As a result, some unconventional features of the 1/3 magnetization ramp, which was proposed by our previous work, are clarified.
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