Ferroelectrics
Density matrix renormalization group study of quasiperiodic S=1/2 XXZ chains-comparative study of exchange and field modulations
Kazuo Hida
Abstract
Low energy behavior of the S = 1/2 antiferromagnetic XXZ chains with Fibonacci exchange/field modulation is studied by the density matrix renormalization group method. For both types of modulation, the energy gap of the chain with length N scales as exp(-cNω ) with nonuniversal exponent ω if the z-component of the exchange coupling is antiferromagnetic. For the field modulation case, the possibility of fully localized ground state is suggested. This is in contrast to the XY chains for which the gap scales as N−z .