The recent experimental realization of emergent quasi-particles, such as spinons, doublons, and quartons, in a spin-
1/2 trimer chain has spurred new interest in low dimensional magnetic systems. In this study, we investigate the dynamical properties of the isotropic spin-
1 trimer chain with intra and inter-trimer antiferromagnetic exchange couplings, (
J>0 and
J′>0), respectively, unveiling various quasi-particles: magnons, singletons, triplons, pentons, and heptons. For weak inter-trimer exchange coupling
J′/J≪1, it behaves as an effective spin-
1 chain with valence bond solid (VBS) ground state. Employing density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) techniques, we compute the dynamic structure factor (DSF) which reveals a gapped magnon band alongside weakly dispersive singleton, excited triplon, and penton excitations. The evolution of these excitations with inter-trimer coupling
J′ is also examined, providing insight into the underlying excitation mechanisms. For spin-
1 chain, these exotic quasi-particles eventually reduce to conventional magnon excitations as
J′/J→1. Our results shed light on the rich and complex excitation spectrum of spin-
1 trimer chains and offer unique perspectives on the dynamics in quantum spin systems.
The excitation spectra of the
T=0 dynamic structure factors for the spin, dimer, and trimer fluctuation operators as well as for the center fluctuation operator in the one-dimensional
S=1 Heisenberg model with isotropic bilinear $(J\mathrm{cos}\ensuremath{\theta})$ and biquadratic $(J\mathrm{sin}\ensuremath{\theta})$ exchange are investigated via the recursion method for systems with up to
N=18 sites over the predicted range, $\ensuremath{-}\ensuremath{\pi}/4<\ensuremath{\theta}\ensuremath{\lesssim}\ensuremath{\pi}/4,$ of the topologically ordered Haldane phase. The four static and dynamic structure factors probe the ordering tendencies in the various coupling regimes and the elementary and composite excitations which dominate the
T=0 dynamics. At $\ensuremath{\theta}=\mathrm{arctan}\frac{1}{3}$ (valence-bond solid point), the dynamically relevant spectra in the invariant subspaces with total spin
ST=0,1,2 are dominated by a branch of magnon states
(ST=1), by continua of two-magnon scattering states
(ST=0,1,2), and by discrete branches of two-magnon bound states with positive interaction energy
(ST=0,2). The dimer and trimer spectra at $q=\ensuremath{\pi}$ are found to consist of single modes with
N-independent excitation energies ${\ensuremath{\omega}}_{\ensuremath{\lambda}}^{D}/|{e}_{0}|=5$ and ${\ensuremath{\omega}}_{\ensuremath{\lambda}}^{T}/|{e}_{0}|=6,$ where
e0=E0/N is the ground-state energy per site. The basic structure of the dynamically relevant excitation spectrum remains the same over a substantial parameter range within the Haldane phase. At the transition to the dimerized phase $(\ensuremath{\theta}=\ensuremath{-}\ensuremath{\pi}/4),$ the two-magnon excitations turn into two-spinon excitations.
= 1 andS=3/2dimers is studied in detail as a function of two considered exchange interactions ascribed to similar and dissimilar spin pairs. At zero magnetic field, the ferrimagnetic mixed spin-(1, 1, 3/2, 3/2) Heisenberg tetramer chain displays, depending on a mutual interplay between two considered exchange interactions, three distinct gapped valence-bond-solid phases separated by gap-closing quantum critical points. Using density-matrix renormalization group calculations we construct the full ground-state phase diagram as a function of the interaction ratio and magnetic field, which exhibits besides three gapped valence-bond-solid phases special Kosterlitz-Thouless and topological quantum critical points. A tangential finite-size scaling analysis is employed to obtain precise estimates of the zero-field valence-bond-solid transitions and unveil their common logarithmic correction to a power-law scaling of the correlation length.