Physics – Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
1996-05-11
Physics
Condensed Matter
7 pages, 8 postscript figures, revtex, addition of figure 8 and a section with experimental predictions, submmited to Phys. Re
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.54.16032
The influence of non-magnetic impurities on the spectrum and dynamical spin structure factor of a model for CuGeO$_3$ is studied. A simple extension to Zn-doped ${\rm Sr Cu_2 O_3}$ is also discussed. Using Exact Diagonalization techniques and intuitive arguments we show that Zn-doping introduces states in the Spin-Peierls gap of CuGeO$_3$. This effect can beunderstood easily in the large dimerization limit where doping by Zn creates ``loose'' S=1/2 spins, which interact with each other through very weak effective antiferromagnetic couplings. When the dimerization is small, a similar effect is observed but now with the free S=1/2 spins being the resulting S=1/2 ground state of severed chains with an odd number of sites. Experimental consequences of these results are discussed. It is interesting to observe that the spin correlations along the chains are enhanced by Zn-doping according to the numerical data presented here. As recent numerical calculations have shown, similar arguments apply to ladders with non-magnetic impurities simply replacing the tendency to dimerization in CuGeO$_3$ by the tendency to form spin-singlets along the rungs in SrCu$_2$O$_3$.
Dagotto Elbio
Martins George
Riera Jose
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