Abstract
While a magnetic phase may be both locally stable and globally unstable, global stability always implies local stability. The distinction between local and global stability is studied on a geometrically-frustrated triangular lattice antiferromagnet with single-ion anisotropy D that favors alignment along the z axis. Whereas the critical value Dcloc for local stability may be discontinuous across a magnetic phase boundary, the critical value Dcglo≥Dcloc for global stability must be continuous. We demonstrate this behavior across the phase boundary between collinear three and four sublattice phases that are stable for large D.
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