Incommensurability in the magnetic excitations of the bilinear-biquadratic spin-1 chain

Details Incommensurability in the magnetic excitations of the bilinear-biquadratic spin-1 chain Incommensurability in the magnetic excitations of the bilinear-biquadratic spin-1 chain

1998-12-17

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9812296v1

Eur. Phys. J. B 11, 199-206 (1999)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

14 pages, 8 encapsulated figures, REVTeX 3.0

Scientific paper

10.1007/s100510050930

We study the magnetic excitation spectrum of the S=1 quantum Heisenberg spin chain with Hamiltonian : H = sum_i cos(theta) S_i S_i+1 + sin(theta) (S_i S_i+1)^2. We focus on the range -pi/4 < theta < +pi/4 where the spin chain is in the gapped Haldane phase. The excitation spectrum and static structure factor is studied using direct Lanczos diagonalization of small systems and density-matrix renormalization group techniques combined with the single-mode approximation. The magnon dispersion has a minimum at q=pi until a critical value theta_c = 0.38 is reached at which the curvature (velocity) vanishes. Beyond this point, which is distinct from the VBS point and the Lifshitz point, the minimum lies at an incommensurate value that goes smoothly to 2pi/3 when theta approaches pi/4, the Lai-Sutherland point. The mode remains isolated from the other states: there is no evidence of spinon deconfinement before the point theta =+pi/4. These findings explain recent observation of the magnetization curve M approx (H -H_c)^1/4 for theta =theta_c.

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