Effect of the boundary on thermodynamic quantities such as magnetization

In this paper, we investigate in general how thermodynamic quantities such as the polarization, magnetization, and the magnetoelectric tensor are affected by the boundaries. We show that when the calculation with periodic boundary conditions does not involve a Berry's phase, the quantity in que...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Chen, Kuang-Ting, Lee, Patrick A.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Physical Society 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/88732
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7809-8157