Physics – Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
1997-02-13
Physics
Condensed Matter
19 pages, 13 figures, RevTex, improved version, to appear in Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
10.1088/0953-8984/9/48/012
We present evidence for the absence of a gap in a class of S=1 antiferromagnetic exchange models. The spin exchange is long-ranged of the type $-(-1)^{i-j}/|i-j|^{\alpha}$ where $1<\alpha<3$. We have shown previously that without the alternating factor the model for $\alpha=2$ (S=1 Haldane-Shastry model) has a gap, exponentially decaying correlation functions and exponentially small susceptibility at very low temperatures. In the case of the alternated interaction the stabilizing next nearest neighbor ferromagnetic interaction changes qualitatively the behavior of the system. We have studied the groundstate and first excited state using a modified Lanczos algorithm for system sizes up to 16 sites. Also, we performed exact diagonalization for systems up to 8 sites and obtained the thermodynamics. The correlation functions decay with distance like a power law. These models define a new class of integer spin chains that do not show a Haldane gap. The results may be relevant to describe impurity spins coupled by a RKKY-interaction through a half-filled conduction-electron band.
Sacramento Pedro D.
Vieira Vitor Rocha
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