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ANNUAL REVIEW OF CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, VOL 1
Volume 1, Issue -, Pages 179-210Publisher
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DOI: 10.1146/annurev-conmatphys-070909-104138
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The Coulomb phase is an emergent state for lattice models (particularly highly frustrated antiferromagnets), which have local constraints that can be mapped to a divergence-free flux. The coarse-grained versions of this flux or polarization behave analogously to electric or magnetic fields; in particular, defects at which the local constraint is violated behave as effective charges with Coulomb interactions. I survey the derivation of the characteristic power-law correlation functions and the pinch points in reciprocal space plots of diffuse scattering, as well as applications to magnetic relaxation, quantum-mechanical generalizations, phase transitions to long-range-ordered states, and the effects of disorder.
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