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Physical review. B, Condensed matter

Correlation length of the biquadratic spin-1 chain

Erik Schwartz Sørensen, A. P. Young

Published Jul 1, 1990• 29 citations
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Abstract

We calculate the ground-state energy and correlation length of the spin-1 antiferromagnetic biquadratic chain, as well as the excitation energy of the two lowest-lying states. We use the equivalence of this model to the spin-1/2 XXZ chain for a specific anisotropy parameter. The XXZ model is solvable by the Bethe ansatz. We solve the Bethe ansatz equations numerically and obtain the correlation length from the ground-state energy of finite chains by use of a finite-size scaling ansatz. We find a surprisingly large correlation length. We also perform quantum Monte Carlo simulations which show clearly that the biquadratic chain dimerizes.

DOI
10.1103/physrevb.42.754

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States of the pure biquadratic quantum spin chain with up to four deviations are calculated exactly for arbitrary chain length. The four-deviation states have a Bethe ansatz form and consist of two interacting two-strings. They have the same form as two-deviation states of an integrable S=1/2 XXZ model. It is found that states with more than four deviations also map onto corresponding S=1/2 states. The ground states of the two systems are not the same for finite N, but appear to become the same in the limit N to infinity .
We introduce an approximation scheme where the Bethe ansatz is applied to non-integrable systems: the many-body S matrix is approximated by a product of two-body S matrices. We call this method Bethe-ansatz approximation (BAA). We apply the BAA to the S =1 antiferromagnetic bilinear-biquadratic quantum spin chain. The model contains a parameter β , the ratio of the biquadratic coupling to the bilinear coupling. Except for β=-∞ , ±1, the system is non-integrable. Varying β , we performed BAA calculation of the ground-state energy as a function of the total magnetization. Comparison with the numerical diagonalization shows a considerable efficiency of the BAA up to medium or more particle density.