Alternating Heisenberg Spin-1/2 Chains in a Transverse Magnetic Field
S. Mahdavifar, Alireza Akbari
The ground state phase diagram of the alternating spin-1/2 chains with anisotropic ferromagnetic coupling under the influence of a symmetry breaking transverse magnetic field is studied. We have used the exact diagonalization technique. In the limit where the antiferromagnetic coupling is dominant, we have identified two Ising-type quantum phase transitions. We have calculated two critical fields $h_{c_{1}}$ and $h_{c_{2}}$, corresponding to the transition between different magnetic phases of the system. It is found that the intermediate state ($h_{c_{1}}
arXiv:0711.0623•Journal of the Physical Society of Japan•Feb 12, 2008•19 citations