Physics – Condensed Matter – Strongly Correlated Electrons
Scientific paper
2010-05-03
Phys. Rev. B 82, 104424 (2010)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Strongly Correlated Electrons
10 pages, Revtex4, 17 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.82.104424
We study the spin and heat conductivity of dimerized spin-1/2 chains in homogeneous magnetic fields at finite temperatures. At zero temperature, the model undergoes two field-induced quantum phase transitions from a dimerized, into a Luttinger, and finally into a fully polarized phase. We search for signatures of these transitions in the spin and heat conductivities. Using exact diagonalization, we calculate the Drude weights, the frequency dependence of the conductivities, and the corresponding integrated spectral weights. As a main result, we demonstrate that both the spin and heat conductivity are enhanced in the gapless phase and most notably at low frequencies. In the case of the thermal conductivity, however, the field-induced increase seen in the bare transport coefficients is suppressed by magnetothermal effects, caused by the coupling of the heat and spin current in finite magnetic fields. Our results complement recent magnetic transport experiments on spin ladder materials with sufficiently small exchange couplings allowing access to the field-induced transitions.
Brenig Wolfram
Darradi Rachid
Heidrich-Meisner Fabian
Langer Stefan
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