Quantum dimer phases in a frustrated spin ladder: Effective field theory approach and exact diagonalization

Details Quantum dimer phases in a frustrated spin ladder: Effective field theory approach and exact diagonalization Quantum dimer phases in a frustrated spin ladder: Effective field theory approach and exact diagonalization

2006-01-24

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0601545v2

Phys. Rev. B 73, 214427 (2006)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

10 pages RevTex4, 7 figures; final version with some small extensions; to appear in Phys. Rev. B

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.73.214427

The phase diagram of a frustrated S=1/2 antiferromagnetic spin ladder with additional next-nearest neighbor exchanges, both diagonal and inchain, is studied by a weak-coupling effective field theory approach combined with exact diagonalization for finite systems. In addition to two known phases with rung-singlet and Haldane-type ground states, we observe two new phases with dimerization along the chains. Furthermore, the transitions between the different phases are studied and shown to be either first order or to belong to the universality class of the two-dimensional Ising model. The nature of elementary excitations is discussed briefly.

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