Physics – Condensed Matter – Strongly Correlated Electrons
Scientific paper
2003-04-18
Phys. Rev. B 67 (2002) 094435
Physics
Condensed Matter
Strongly Correlated Electrons
Expanded version of cond-mat/0208216; Revtex, 7 pages, 2 eps figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.67.094435
We study the anisotropic Heisenberg (XYZ) spin-1/2 chain placed in a magnetic field pointing along the x-axis. We use bosonization and a renormalization group analysis to show that the model has a non-trivial fixed point at a certain value of the XY anisotropy a and the magnetic field h. Hence, there is a line of critical points in the (a,h) plane on which the system is gapless, even though the Hamiltonian has no continuous symmetry. The quantum critical line corresponds to a spin-flop transition; it separates two gapped phases in one of which the Z_2 symmetry of the Hamiltonian is broken. Our study has a bearing on one of the transitions of the axial next-nearest neighbor Ising (ANNNI) chain in a transverse magnetic field. We also discuss the properties of the model when the magnetic field is increased further, in particular, the disorder line on which the ground state is a direct product of single spin states.
Dutta Amit
Sen Diptiman
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