The dimerized ferromagnetic Heisenberg chain

Details The dimerized ferromagnetic Heisenberg chain The dimerized ferromagnetic Heisenberg chain

2011-07-14

arxiv.org/abs/1107.2772v1

Phys. Rev. B 84, 134428 (2011)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

12 pages, 14 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.84.134428

Ferromagnetic, in contrast to antiferromagnetic, Heisenberg chains can undergo a Spin-Peierls dimerization only at finite temperatures. They show reentrant behavior as a function of temperature, which might play a role for systems with small effective elastic constants as, for example, monatomic chains on surfaces. We investigate the physical properties of the dimerized ferromagnetic Heisenberg chain using a modified spin-wave theory. We calculate the exponentially decaying spin and dimer correlation functions, analyze the temperature dependence of the corresponding coherence lengths, the susceptibility, as well as the static and dynamic spin structure factor. By comparing with numerical data obtained by the density-matrix renormalization group applied to transfer matrices, we find that the modified spin wave theory yields excellent results for all these quantities for a wide range of dimerizations and temperatures.

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