alternating spin chains with Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction

Guanghua Liu, Jun-Ya Dou, Pengfei Lu

Oleg Derzhko, Taras Verkholyak

Oleg Derzhko, Taras Krokhmalskii, Taras Verkholyak

Chuan-Jia Shan, Zu-Xin Xia, Fei Liu +2 more

Jozef Strečka, Lucia Gálisová, Oleg Derzhko

Ground-state energy is exactly calculated for the spin-1/2 Heisenberg-Ising bond alternating chain with the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction.Under certain condition, which relates a strength of the Ising, Heisenberg and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions, the ground-state energy exhibits an interesting nonanalytic behavior accompanied with a gapless excitation spectrum.

Hai Tao Wang, Sam Young Cho

Non-local orders, entanglement entropy, and quantum fidelity are investigated in an infinite-size bond-alternating Ising chain with the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction by employing the infinite matrix product state representation with the infinite time evolving block decimation method. Directly computing two distinct types of finite string correlations for very large lattice distances, in contrast to an extrapolated extreme value for finite size chains, reveals two topologically ordered phases. As the bond alternation varies, a topological quantum phase transition with continuously variable critical exponents along the phase boundary occurs between the two Haldane phases for a Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction stronger than the Ising interaction while a topological quantum crossover between them happens through an intermediate antiferromagentic phase demonstrated with the quantum fidelity for a Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction weaker than the Ising interaction. The critical exponents of the order parameters and the central charges from the entanglement entropy quantify the universality classes of the phase transition points. Anisotropic Heisenberg types of spin chains with bond alternations are finally discussed to share the same criticality.