Edge states in Open Antiferromagnetic Heisenberg Chains

Details Edge states in Open Antiferromagnetic Heisenberg Chains Edge states in Open Antiferromagnetic Heisenberg Chains

1995-02-13

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9502047v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

4 pages, RevTeX 3.0, 5 figures in a separate uuencoded postscript file. Replaced once to enlarge the acknowlegement.

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.52.12844

In this letter we report our results in investigating edge effects of open antiferromagnetic Heisenberg spin chains with spin magnitudes $S=1/2, 1,3/2,2$ using the density-matrix renormalization group (DMRG) method initiated by White. For integer spin chains, we find that edge states with spin magnitude $S_{edge}=S/2$ exist, in agreement with Valence-Bond-Solid model picture. For half-integer spin chains, we find that no edge states exist for $S=1/2$ spin chain, but edge state exists in $S=3/2$ spin chain with $S_{edge}=1/2$, in agreement with previous conjecture by Ng. Strong finite size effects associated with spin dimmerization in half-integer spin chains will also be discussed.

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