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Physica B Condensed Matter

Dynamical effects of phonons on soliton binding in quasi-one-dimensional spin–Peierls systems

David Augier, Didier Poilblanc, Erik Schwartz Sørensen, Ian K. Affleck

Published Jan 1, 1999• 0 citations
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10.1016/s0921-4526(98)00637-1

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Abstract The role of dynamical magneto-elastic coupling in spin–Peierls chains is investigated by various numerical techniques. We show that, generically, a Heisenberg spin chain coupled to dynamical optical phonons exhibits a transition towards a spontaneously dimerized state. The low energy excitations are characterized as topological solitons. No binding between solitons occurs in the isolated spin–phonon chain. However, elastic interchain coupling can lead to the formation of bound states.
The role of dynamical magnetoelastic coupling in spin-Peierls chains is investigated by numerical and analytical techniques. We show that a Heisenberg spin chain coupled to dynamical optical phonons exhibits a transition towards a spontaneously dimerized state in a wide range of parameter space. The low-energy excitations are characterized as solitons. No binding between solitons occurs in the isolated spin-phonon chain and the dynamical spin structure factor shows a broad magnon dispersion. However, elastic interchain coupling can lead to the formation of bound states.
The role of the spin-phonon coupling in spin-Peierls chains doped with spin-0 or spin-1 impurities is investigated by various numerical methods such as exact diagonalization, quantum Monte Carlo simulations and Density Matrix Renormalization Group. Various treatments of the lattice, in a fully quantum mechanical way, classically in the adiabatic approximation or using a fixed three-dimensional dimerization pattern are compared. For an isolated chain, strong bonds form between the two spin-1/2 sites next to the impurity site, leading to the appearance of magneto-elastic solitons. We also show that these excitations do not bind to spin-0 impurities but are weakly attracted by spin-1 impurities. However, the interchain elastic coupling generates an effective confining potential at the non-magnetic impurity site which can lead to the formation of soliton-impurity bound states. We also predict that a soliton and an antisoliton bound to two impurities on the same chain can annihilate each other when the separation between the impurities is smaller than a critical value depending on the interchain elastic constant.