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Journal of the Physical Society of Japan

Two-Magnon Bound States in a Linear Heisenberg Chain with Nearest and Next Nearest Neighbor Interactions

Ikuo Ono, Syogo Mikado, Takehiko Oguchi

Published Feb 1, 1971• 30 citations
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Abstract

The bound state problems associated with two magnons in a linear chain of spin 1/2 with nearest and next nearest neighbor exchange integrals, J and α J , respectively, are studied. The Hamiltonian is rewritten in terms of the Fermi operators in place of spin operators, and an integral equation to determine the bound state energies is obtained. In the cases when the total wave number K of two magnons is π or π/2, analytical solutions are easily obtained. A part of the present results disagrees with Majumdar's ones. Computer studies on the bound states are performed for a finite chain composed of spins up to twenty. They are consistent with the analytical results.

DOI
10.1143/jpsj.30.358

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Abstract The two-magnon problem in the k = − π /2 sector of a finite-size spin-1/2 chain with ferromagnetic nearest-neighbor (NN) interaction ( J 1 > 0) and antiferromagnetic next-nearest-neighbor (NNN) interaction ( J 2 < 0) and anisotropy parameters Δ 1 and Δ 2 is solved exactly by combining a set of exact two-magnon Bloch states and a plane-wave ansatz. Two types of two-magnon bound states (BSs), i.e., the NN and NNN exchange BSs, are revealed. We establish a phase diagram in the J 1 /(∣ J 2 ∣Δ 2 )-Δ 1 plane where regions supporting different types of BSs are analytically identified. It is found that no BSs exist (the two types of BSs coexist) when both Δ 1 and Δ 2 are small (large) enough. Our results for the isotropic case Δ 1 = Δ 2 = 1 are consistent with an early work [Ono I, Mikado S and Oguchi T 1971 J. Phys. Soc. Japan 30 358].