Solvable case of a spin-1 model in a magnetic field

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Andrei A. Zvyagin, Victor V. Slavin

The new class of exactly solvable models of one-dimensional spin chains is found. Interactions of spins with crystalline electric fields (CEF) and spin-spin coupling between neighboring sites are taken into account for those models. Spin-spin coupling includes higher-order spin operators (the Stevens operators) and describes the interaction between z th components of the spins. We show that essential parts of the Hamiltonians of these models can be written in terms of exactly solvable transverse field Ising model (TFIM), in which certain combinations of the parameters of spin-spin interactions play the role of the TFIM exchange constant, and components of the CEFs play the role of external transverse magnetic field of the TFIM. The obtained results are valid for any values of spin (or total moments for rare-earth ions) and for the wide class of CEFs. The requirement for the exact solvability is that the space of single spin states should be split by the CEF into the subspaces with dimensions ≤ 2 (i.e., the only singlets and doublets are allowed). Cases of integer and half-integer spins are considered. For finite-size chains with integer spins and open ends we show numerically that energy spectra always contain the states whose energies do not depend on the CEF (the magnetic field for the TFIM). The energies (per spin) of these states decay as L − 1 , where L is the chain length. This behavior qualitatively distinguishes these states from known Majorana edge states and strong zero modes, where the energy decreases exponentially in L .

Murray T. Batchelor, Jan de Gier, Jon Links +1 more

We extend the results of spin ladder models associated with the Lie algebras su (2 n ) to the case of the orthogonal and symplectic algebras o (2 n ), sp (2 n ) where n is the number of legs for the system. Two classes of models are found whose symmetry, either orthogonal or symplectic, has an explicit n dependence. Integrability of these models is shown for an arbitrary coupling of XX -type rung interactions and applied magnetic field term.

Stanislav Alekseevich Molchanov, Nguyen The Long

Andrei A. Zvyagin, Gleb A. Skorobagatko

We propose an exactly solvable quantum spin model, in which the alternation of the exchange interactions between neighboring spins is accompanied by the multiple spin exchange. The model permits us to obtain exactly thermodynamic characteristics of the considered quantum spin chain. In the ground state, depending on the strength of the three-spin coupling, the model manifests either the spin-gapped behavior of low-lying excitations at low magnetic fields, or the ferrimagnetic ordering with the spontaneous magnetization and with gapless low-lying excitations. The system undergoes second order or first order quantum phase transitions, governed by an external magnetic field and the multiple spin exchange coupling strength. Our exactly solvable quantum spin model demonstrates that multispin interactions in a dimerized quantum spin chain can produce a spontaneous magnetization. On the other hand, for quantum spin chains with a spontaneous magnetization, caused by multispin couplings, the alternation of nearest neighbor exchange interactions can be the reason for destroying of that magnetization and the onset of a spin gap for low-lying excitations.

Minoru Takahashi