Magnetization plateau in the S=1/2 spin ladder with alternating rung exchange

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2006-03-07

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0603153v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

6 pages, 2 figures

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We have studied the ground state phase diagram of a spin ladder with alternating rung exchange $J^{n}_{\perp} = J_{\perp}[1 + (-1)^{n} \delta ]$ in a magnetic filed, in the limit where the rung coupling is dominant. In this limit the model is mapped onto an $XXZ$ Heisenberg chain in a uniform and staggered longitudinal magnetic fields, where the amplitude of the staggered field is $\sim \delta$. We have shown that the magnetization curve of the system exhibits a plateau at magnetization equal to the half of the saturation value. The width of a plateau scales as $\delta^{\nu}$, where $\nu =4/5$ in the case of ladder with isotropic antiferromagnetic legs and $\nu =2$ in the case of ladder with isotropic ferromagnetic legs. We have calculated four critical fields ($H^{\pm}_{c1}$ and $H^{\pm}_{c2}$) corresponding to transitions between different magnetic phases of the system. We have shown that these transitions belong to the universality class of the commensurate-incommensurate transition.

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