One-dimensional spin pyrochlore lattice: exact ground state and elementary excitations

Details One-dimensional spin pyrochlore lattice: exact ground state and elementary excitations One-dimensional spin pyrochlore lattice: exact ground state and elementary excitations

2006-02-14

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0602328v2

Phys. Rev. B, 74, 174424 (2006)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

8 pages, 7 figures, version published in Phys. Rev. B

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.74.174424

We study the antiferromagnetic spin exchange models with $S=1/2$ and S=1 on a one-dimensional tetrahedron chain by both analytical and numerical approaches. The system is shown to be effectively mapped to a decoupled spin chain in the regime of strong rung coupling, and a spin sawtooth lattice in the regime of weak rung coupling with spin $2S$ on the top row and spin $S$ on the lower row. The ground state for the homogeneous tetrahedron chain is found to fall into in the regime of strong rung coupling. As a result, the elementary excitation for the spin-$ 1/2$ system is gapless whereas the excitation for the spin-1 system has a finite spin gap. With the aid of the exact diagonalization method, we determine the phase diagram numerically and find the existence of an additional phase in the intermediate regime. This phase is doubly degenerate and is characterized by an alternating distribution of rung singlet and rung spin $2S$. We also show that the SU(3) exchange model on the same lattice has completely different kind of ground state from that of its SU(2) correspondence and calculate its ground state and elementary excitation analytically.

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