We study the ground-state phase diagram of a spin-
21 frustrated XXZ ladder, in which two antiferromagnetic chains are coupled by competing rung and diagonal interactions, ${J}_{\ensuremath{\perp}}$ and ${J}_{\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}}$. Previous studies on the isotropic model have revealed that a fluctuation-induced effective dimer attraction between the legs stabilizes the columnar dimer (CD) phase in the highly frustrated regime ${J}_{\ensuremath{\perp}}\ensuremath{\approx}2{J}_{\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}}$, especially for ferromagnetic ${J}_{\ensuremath{\perp},\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}}<0$. By means of effective field theory and numerical analyses, we extend this analysis to the XXZ model, and we obtain a rich phase diagram. The diagram includes four gapped featureless phases with no symmetry breaking: the rung singlet (RS) and Haldane phases as well as their twisted variants, the RS* and Haldane* phases, which are all distinct in the presence of certain symmetries. Significantly, the Haldane-CD transition point in the isotropic model turns out to be a crossing point of two transition lines in the XXZ model, and the stripe N\'eel and RS* phases appear between these lines. This indicates a nontrivial interplay between the effective dimer attraction and the exchange anisotropy. In the easy-plane regime, the four featureless phases and two critical phases are found to compete in a complex manner depending on the signs of ${J}_{\ensuremath{\perp},\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}}$.
The ground state and low lying excitation of the spin 1/2 Heisenberg ladder with antiferromagnetic leg (
J) and ferromagnetic rung (
−λJ,λ>0) interaction is studied by means of the density matrix renormalization group method. It is found that the state remains in the Haldane phase even for small
λ∼0.02 suggesting the continuous transition to the gapless phase at
λ=0. The critical behavior for small
λ is studied by the finite size scaling analysis. The result is consistent with the recent field theoretical prediction.
We investigate an S =(1/2) ladder model with a ferromagnetic interchain coupling (-λ) and an antiferromagnetic intrachain coupling based on the bosonization method, which reduces to the S =1 antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model in the limit λ→∞. We argue with the aid of Wilson's renormalization group method that the ground state is the Haldane state with an excitation gap for λ>0, that the gap opens at λ=0 exponentially and that the critical index of the coherence length is unity (ν=1) on the critical line between the antiferromagnetic and the Haldane phases. Furthermore, it is found that the string order parameter proposed by den Nijs and Rommelse is expressed by a local order parameter in the bosonization method.
Using the density matrix renormalization group method, we have obtained the ground-state phase diagram of a spin-1/2 two-leg antiferromagnetic Heisenberg ladder with a ferromagnetic diagonal interaction ${J}_{\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}}.$ The boundary between the two phases found in the system, the Haldane phase and the singlet phase, lies in the frustrated area of the parameter space, i.e., both the rung coupling ${J}_{\ensuremath{\perp}}$ and the diagonal coupling ${J}_{\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}}$ are ferromagnetic. The spin gap is found to be insensitive to the change of the ferromagnetic diagonal coupling strength when the ratio of the rung coupling constant ${J}_{\ensuremath{\perp}}$ to the leg coupling constant ${J}_{\ensuremath{\Vert}}$ is 0.5, in agreement with the analysis of recent experimental spin susceptibility data.
We explore the ground-state phase diagram of the S = 1/2 two-leg ladder. The isotropic leg interactions J 1, a and J 1, b between nearest neighbor spins in the legs a and b , respectively, are different from each other. The xy and z components of the uniform rung interactions are denoted by J r and Δ J r , respectively, where Δ is the XXZ anisotropy parameter. This system has a frustration when J 1, a J 1, b < 0 irrespective of the sign of J r . The phase diagrams on the Δ (0≤Δ<1) versus J 1, b plane in the cases of J 1, a = − 0.2 and J 1, a = 0.2 with J r = −1 are determined numerically. We employ the physical consideration, the level spectroscopy analysis of the results obtained by the exact diagonalization method and also the density-matrix renormalization-group method. It is found that the non-collinear ferrimagnetic (NCFR) state appears as the ground state in the frustrated region of the parameters. Furthermore, the direct-product triplet-dimer (TD) state in which all rungs form the TD pair is the exact ground state , when J 1, a + J 1, b = 0 and 0≤ Δ ≲ 0.83. The obtained phase diagrams consist of the TD, XY and Haldane phases as well as the NCFR phase.
We explore the ground-state phase diagram of the
S=1/2 two-leg ladder with different leg interactions. The
xy and
z components of the leg interactions between nearest-neighbor spins in the
a (
b) leg are respectively denoted by
Jl,a and
ΔlJl,a (
Jl,b and
ΔlJl,b). On the other hand, the
xy and
z components of the uniform rung interactions are respectively denoted by
ΓrJr and
Jr. In the above,
Δl and
Γr are the
XXZ-type anisotropy parameters for the leg and rung interactions, respectively. This system has a frustration when
Jl,aJl,b<0 irrespective of the sign of
Jr. The phase diagram on the
Δl (
∣Δl∣≤1.0) versus
Jl,b (
−2.0≤Jl,b≤3.0) plane in the case where
Jl,a=0.2,
Jr=−1.0, and
Γr=0.5 is determined numerically. We employ the physical consideration, and the level spectroscopy and phenomenological renormalization-group analyses of the numerical date obtained by the exact diagonalization method. The resultant phase diagram contains the ferromagnetic, Haldane, N{é}el, nematic Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid (TLL), partial ferrimagnetic, and
XY1 phases. Interestingly enough, the nematic TLL phase appears in the strong-rung unfrustrated region as well as in the strong-rung frustrated one. We perform the first-order perturbational calculations from the strong rung coupling limit to elucidate the characteristic features of the phase diagram. Furthermore, we make the density-matrix renormalization-group calculations for some physical quantities such as the energy gaps, the local magnetization, and the spin correlation functions to supplement the reliability of the phase diagram.