Physical review. B, Condensed matter
Elementary excitations of an anisotropic spin-1 chain
Minoru Takahashi
Abstract
The neutron-scattering intensity and energy eigenvalues of the elementary excitations of the S=1 antiferromagnetic Heisenberg chain with single-ion anisotropy [scrH=J ${\mathit{tsum}}_{\mathit{i}=1}^{\mathit{N}}$ ${\mathbf{S}}_{\mathit{i}}$\ensuremath{\cdot}${\mathbf{S}}_{\mathit{i}+1}$+D tsum(${\mathit{S}}_{\mathit{i}}^{\mathit{z}}$${)}^{2}$] are calculated with a numerical diagonalization method and a projector Monte Carlo method. We set D/J=0.2,0.0,-0.2 and N=14,16,18,32. For D\ensuremath{\ne}0, the elementary excitations in the subspace of ${\mathit{S}}^{\mathit{z}}$=\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}1 and in the subspace of ${\mathit{S}}^{\mathit{z}}$=0 are different. The ${\mathit{S}}^{\mathit{z}}$=\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}1 branch is lower than the ${\mathit{S}}^{\mathit{z}}$=0 branch near Q=\ensuremath{\pi}; however, it becomes slightly higher in other regions. The crossing of levels occurs at Q\ensuremath{\simeq}\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.7\ensuremath{\pi}. We find that the low-lying excited state has a weight of more than 90% in the dynamical structure factor, except for Q\ensuremath{\simeq}0. Our results explain recent experimental results on Ni(${\mathrm{C}}_{2}$${\mathrm{H}}_{8}$${\mathrm{N}}_{2}$${)}_{2}$${\mathrm{NO}}_{2}$${\mathrm{ClO}}_{4}$.