arXiv:0807.2094 · Journal of Physics Condensed Matter
Numerical study of the frustrated ferromagnetic spin-\frac {1}{2} chain
S. Mahdavifar
Abstract
The ground state phase diagram of the frustrated ferromagnetic spin- chain is investigated using the exact diagonalization technique. It is shown that there is a jump in the spontaneous magnetization and the ground state of the system undergoes a phase transition from a ferromagnetic phase to a phase with dimer ordering between next-nearest-neighbor spins. Near the quantum transition point, the critical behavior of the ground state energy is analyzed numerically. Using a practical finite-size scaling approach, the critical exponent of the ground state energy is computed. Our numerical results are in good agreement with the results obtained with other theoretical approaches.