Dutta, Amit and Sen, Diptiman (2003) Gapless line for the anisotropic Heisenberg spin-1/2 chain in a magnetic field and the quantum axial next-nearest-neighbor Ising chain. In: Physical Review B (Condensed Matter and Materials Physics), 67 . 094435-1-7.
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Abstract
We study the anisotropic Heisenberg (XYZ) spin-1/2 chain placed in a magnetic field pointing along the x axis. We use bosonization and a renormalization group analysis to show that the model has a nontrivial fixed point at a certain value of the XY anisotropy a and the magnetic field h. Hence there is a line of critical points in the (a,h) plane on which the system is gapless, even though the Hamiltonian has no continuous symmetry. The quantum critical line corresponds to a spin-flip transition; it separates two gapped phases in one of which the Z2 symmetry of the Hamiltonian is broken. Our study has a bearing on one of the transitions of the axial next-nearest neighbor Ising chain in a transverse magnetic field. We also discuss the properties of the model when the magnetic field is increased further, in particular, the disorder line on which the ground state is a direct product of single spin states.
Item Type: | Journal Article |
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Publication: | Physical Review B (Condensed Matter and Materials Physics) |
Publisher: | American Physical Society |
Additional Information: | Copyright for this article belongs to American Physical Society (APS). |
Department/Centre: | Division of Physical & Mathematical Sciences > Centre for Theoretical Studies (Ceased to exist at the end of 2003) |
Date Deposited: | 17 Sep 2004 |
Last Modified: | 19 Sep 2010 04:16 |
URI: | http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/2049 |
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