Spin-Peierls transition in the Heisenberg chain with finite-frequency phonons

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1999-02-16

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9902230v1

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 195 (1999)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

5 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.195

We study the spin-Peierls transition in a Heisenberg spin chain coupled to optical bond-phonons. Quantum Monte Carlo results for systems with up to N=256 spins show unambiguously that the transition occurs only when the spin-phonon coupling alpha exceeds a critical value alpha_c. Using sum rules, we show that the phonon spectral function has divergent (for infinite N) weight extending to zero frequency for alpha < alpha_c. The equal-time phonon-phonon correlations decay with distance r as 1/r. This behavior is characteristic for all 0 < alpha < alpha_c and the q=pi phonon does not soften (to zero frequency) at the transition.

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