Disordered Flat Phase in a Solid on Solid Model of Fcc(110) Surfaces and Dimer States in Quantum Spin-1/2 Chains

Details Disordered Flat Phase in a Solid on Solid Model of Fcc(110) Surfaces and Dimer States in Quantum Spin-1/2 Chains Disordered Flat Phase in a Solid on Solid Model of Fcc(110) Surfaces and Dimer States in Quantum Spin-1/2 Chains

1994-02-08

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9402038v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

20 pages (10 Figures available upon request), REVTEX, SISSA PREPRINT 1/94/CM/SS

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.49.13886

We present a restricted solid on solid hamiltonian for fcc (110) surfaces. It is the simplest generalization of the exactly solvable BCSOS model which is able to describe a $(2\times 1)$ missing-row reconstructed surface. We study this model by mapping it onto a quantum spin-1/2 chain of the Heisenberg type, with second and third neighbor $S^z_iS^z_j$ couplings. The ground state phase diagram of the spin-chain model is studied by exact diagonalization of finite chains up to $N=28$ sites, as well as through analytical techniques. We find four phases in the phase diagram: two ordered phases in which the spins have a N\'eel-type of long range order (an unreconstructed and a missing-row reconstructed phase, in the surface language), a spin liquid phase (representing a rough surface), and an intermediate dimer phase which breaks translational invariance and has a doubly degenerate ground state, corresponding to a disordered flat surface. The transition from the $(2\times 1)$ reconstructed phase to the disordered flat phase belongs to the $2D$ Ising universality class. A critical (preroughening) line with varying exponents separates the unreconstructed phase from the disordered flat phase. The possible experimental signatures of the disordered flat phase are discussed.

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