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arXiv:1111.3430 · Journal of the Physical Society of Japan

Frustration-Induced Ferrimagnetism in Heisenberg Spin Chains

Tokuro Shimokawa, Hiroki Nakano

Published Nov 21, 2011• 5 citations
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Abstract

We study ground-state properties of the Heisenberg frustrated spin chain with interactions up to fourth nearest neighbors by the exact-diagonalization method and the density matrix renormalization group method. We find that ferrimagnetism is realized not only in the case of S=1/2 but also S=1 despite that there is only a single spin site in each unit cell determined from the shape of the Hamiltonian. Our numerical results suggest that a "multi-sublattice structure" is not required for the occurrence of ferrimagnetism in quantum spin systems with isotropic interactions.

DOI
10.1143/jpsj.80.125003

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We study the ground-state properties of weakly frustrated Heisenberg ferrimagnetic chains with nearest- and next-nearest-neighbor antiferromagnetic exchange interactions and two types of alternating sublattice spins S1>S2,{S}_{1}>{S}_{2},S1​>S2​, using 1/S1/S1/S spin-wave expansions, density-matrix renormalization group, and exact diagonalization techniques. It is argued that the zero-point spin fluctuations completely destroy the classical commensurate-incommensurate continuous transition. Instead, the long-range ferrimagnetic state disappears through a discontinuous transition to a singlet state at a larger value of the frustration parameter. In the ferrimagnetic phase we find a disorder point marking the onset of incommensurate real-space short-range spin-spin correlations.
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