Physics – Condensed Matter – Strongly Correlated Electrons
Scientific paper
2001-07-25
Physics
Condensed Matter
Strongly Correlated Electrons
11 pages, 5 figures, Corrected typos. To appear in Phys. Rev. B
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.64.184439
Microscopic models of quantum antiferromagnets are investigated on the basis of a mapping onto effective low energy hamiltonians. Lattice effects are carefully taken into account and their role is discussed. We show that the presence of an external staggered magnetic field modifies in a non trivial way the usual mapping onto the non linear sigma model, leading to the appearance of new terms, neglected in previous works. Our analysis is compared with Lanczos diagonalizations of S=1 Heisenberg chains in a staggered field, confirming the validity of the single mode approximation for the evaluation of the dynamical structure factor. The results are relevant for the interpretation of experiments in quasi-one dimensional compounds. Microscopic realizations of SU(4) spin chains are also discussed in the framework of spin-orbital lattice systems. The low energy physics is shown to be described by sigma models with topological angle $\theta$ in one dimension. This mapping strongly suggests that the one dimensional CP$^3$ model (with $\theta=\pi$) undergoes a second order phase transition as a function of the coupling.
Gliozzi A. S.
Parola Alberto
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