Physics – Condensed Matter – Strongly Correlated Electrons
Scientific paper
2003-07-21
Phys. Rev. B 69 (2004) 214406
Physics
Condensed Matter
Strongly Correlated Electrons
RevTeX, 28 pages including 11 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.69.214406
We study the low-energy properties of a sawtooth chain with spin-1's at the bases of the triangles and spin-1/2's at the vertices of the triangles. The spins have Heisenberg antiferromagnetic interactions between nearest neighbors, with a coupling J_2 between a spin-1 and a spin-1/2, and a coupling J_1 = 1 between two spin-1's. Analysis of the exact diagonalization data for periodic chains containing up to N=12 unit cells shows that the ground state is a singlet for exchange couplings up to approximately J_2 = 3.8, whereas for larger J_2, the system exhibits a ferrimagnetic ground state characterized by a net ferromagnetic moment per unit cell of 1/2. In the region of small interactions J_2, the mixed spin sawtooth chain maps on to an effective isotropic spin model representing two weakly interacting and frustrated spin-1/2 Heisenberg chains composed of spin-1/2 sites at odd and even vertices respectively. Finally, we study the phenomenon of a macroscopic magnetization jump which occurs if a magnetic field is applied with a value close to the saturation field for J_2 = 2.
Chandra Ravi V.
Ivanov N. B.
Richter Jadwiga
Sen Diptiman
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