Physics – Condensed Matter – Strongly Correlated Electrons
Scientific paper
1997-07-24
Physics
Condensed Matter
Strongly Correlated Electrons
18 pages revtex with 26 figures included
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.57.10755
Spin models that have been proposed to describe dimerized chains, ladders, two dimensional antiferromagnets, and other compounds are here studied when some spins are replaced by spinless vacancies, such as it occurs by $Zn$ doping. A small percentage of vacancies rapidly destroys the spin gap, and their presence induces enhanced antiferromagnetic correlations near those vacancies. The study is performed with computational techniques which includes Lanczos, world-line Monte Carlo, and the Density Matrix Renormalization Group methods. Since the phenomenon of enhanced antiferromagnetism is found to occur in several models and cluster geometries, a common simple explanation for its presence may exist. It is argued that the resonating-valence-bond character of the spin correlations at short distances of a large variety of models is responsible for the presence of robust staggered spin correlations near vacancies and lattice edges. The phenomenon takes place regardless of the long distance properties of the ground state, and it is caused by a ``pruning'' of the available spin singlets in the vicinity of the vacancies. The effect produces a broadening of the low temperature NMR signal for the compounds analyzed here. This broadening should be experimentally observable in the structurally dimerized chain systems $Cu(NO_3)_2\cdot2.5H_2O$, $CuWO_4$, $(VO)_2P_2O_7$, and $Sr_{14}Cu_{24}O_{41}$, in ladder materials such as $Sr Cu_2 O_3$, in the spin-Peierls systems $CuGeO_3$ and $NaV_2 O_5$, and in several others since it is a universal effect common to a wide variety of models and compounds.
Dagotto Elbio
Gazza Claudio J.
Hansen Patricia M.
Laukamp Markus
Lopez Alfredo C.
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