Excitation structure of frustrated spin chains with dimerization and the description by the effective field theory

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Abstract

Heisenberg antiferromagnetic chain with alternating exchange interaction is an important model, which describes magnetic properties of real materials. Field theoretical approach is a powerful tool to investigate such kind of one-dimensional quantum magnets, and it is known that this lattice model is related with corresponding sine-Gordon effective field theory through the bosonization technique. We investigate the excitation spectrum and the correspondence between $S=\frac{1}{2}$ and 1 frustrated chain with dimerization and their effective field theories by both analytical and numerical methods, focusing on the mass ratio $r$ of second breather to soliton. In the result, the $S=\frac{1}{2}$ and 1 cases are understood in a unified way. $r$ becomes $\sqrt{3}$, the value predicted from sine-Gordon model by the introduction of next-nearest neighbor coupling $J_2=J_{2{\rm c}}$ where the marginal term in effective field theory vanishes. The universality class of transition is Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid and first order for $J_2

Authors

  • Shintaro Takayoshi

    Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo

  • Masaki Oshikawa

    Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo