Physics – Condensed Matter – Strongly Correlated Electrons
Scientific paper
2002-04-18
Physics
Condensed Matter
Strongly Correlated Electrons
4 pages, 6 figures (revtex twocolumn)
Scientific paper
10.1140/epjb/e2003-00054-2
The recently elucidated structure of the delafossite YCuO$_{2.5}$ reveals a Cu-O network with nearly independent $\Delta$ chains having different interactions between the $s=1/2$ spins. Motivated by this result, we study the $\Delta$ chain for various ratios $J_{\rm bb}/J_{\rm bv}$ of the base-base and base-vertex interactions. By exact diagonalization and extrapolation, we show that the elementary excitation spectrum, which (within numerical error) is the same for total spins $S_{\rm tot}=0$ and 1, has a gap only in the interval $0.4874(1) \leq J_{\rm bb}/J_{\rm bv} \leq 1.53(1)$. The gap is dispersionless for $J_{\rm bb}/J_{\rm bv}=1$, but has increasing $k$-dependence as $J_{\rm bb}/J_{\rm bv}$ moves away from unity, related to the instability of dimers in the ground state.
Blundell S. A.
Nunez-Regueiro María Dolores
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