First-order quantum phase transition in the orthogonal-dimer spin chain

Details First-order quantum phase transition in the orthogonal-dimer spin chain First-order quantum phase transition in the orthogonal-dimer spin chain

2000-03-28

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0003437v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

7 pages, submitted to Phys. Rev. B

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.62.5558

We investigate the low-energy properties of the orthogonal-dimer spin chain characterized by a frustrated dimer-plaquette structure. When the competing antiferromagnetic couplings are varied, the first-order quantum phase transition occurs between the dimer and the plaquette phases, which is accompanied by nontrivial features due to frustration: besides the discontinuity in the lowest excitation gap at the transition point, a sharp level-crossing occurs for the spectrum in the plaquette phase. We further reveal that the plateau in the magnetization curve at 1/4 of the full moment dramatically changes its character in the vicinity of the critical point. It is argued that the first-order phase transition in this system captures some essential properties found in the two-dimensional orthogonal-dimer model proposed for $\rm SrCu_2(BO_3)_2$.

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