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Journal of the Physical Society of Japan

Domain-Wall Excitations in an Ising-Like Antiferromagnetic Chain under a Transverse Magnetic Field

Shigeyoshi Mori, Isao Mannari, Isao Harada

Published Sep 15, 1994• 11 citations
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Abstract

We study effects of a transverse magnetic field on the properties of the one-dimensional spin-1/2 Ising-like antiferromagnet. In order to emphasize the relevant role of domain walls between opposite antiferromagnetic domains, the spin Hamiltonian is exactly mapped to the interacting fermion Hamiltonian, via the dual transformation as well as the Jordan-Wigner transformation. Within the generalized Hartree-Fock approximation, we find that the excitation spectrum exhibits characteristic features, which are explained as a result of the different roles of the transverse field and of the transverse components of the exchange interactions in the propagation of the domain wall. At a critical field where the excitation gap vanishes, a ground-state phase transition is found to take place in the same manner as that in the transverse Ising model. In addition, we discuss the relevance of our magnetization curve with regard to experimental data in CsCoCl 3 .

DOI
10.1143/jpsj.63.3474

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We consider the one-dimensional Ising-like fully anisotropic S = 1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnetic Hamiltonian and study the dynamics of domain wall excitations in the presence of a transverse magnetic field h x . We obtain dynamical spin correlation functions along the magnetic field, S xx ( q ,ω), and perpendicular to it, S yy ( q ,ω). It is shown that the line shapes of S xx ( q ,ω) and S yy ( q ,ω) are purely symmetric at the zone boundary. It is observed in S yy ( q ,ω) for π/2< q <π that the spectral weight moves toward the low-energy side with the increase of h x . This model is applicable to the study of the spin dynamics of CsCoCl 3 in the presence of weak interchain interactions.
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We discuss several problems concerning domain walls in the spin-S Ising model at zero temeprature in a magnetic field, H/(2S), applied in the x direction. Some results are also given for the planar (y-z) model in a transverse field. We treat the quantum problem in one dimension by perturbation theory at small H and numerically over a large range of H. We obtain the spin-density profile by fixing the spins at opposite ends of the chain to have opposite signs of Sz{\mathit{S}}_{\mathit{z}}Sz​. One dimensional is special in that there the quantum width of the wall is proportional to the size L of the system. We also study the quantitative features of the ``particle'' band which extends up to energies of order H above the ground state. Except for the planar limit, this particle band is well separated from excitations having energy J/S involving creation of more walls. At large S this particle band develops energy gaps and the lowest subband has tunnel splittings of order H${2}^{1\mathrm{\ensuremath{-}}2\mathit{S}}$. This scale of of energy gives rise to anomalous scaling with respect to (a) finite size, (b) temperature, or (c) random potentials. The intrinsic width of the domain wall and the pinning energy are also defined and calculated in certain limiting cases. The general conclusion is that quantum effects prevent the wall from being sharp and in higher dimension would prevent sudden excursions in the configuration of the wall.
We study the melting of domain walls in the ferromagnetic phase of the transverse Ising chain, created by flipping the order-parameter spins along one-half of the chain. If the initial state is excited by a local operator in terms of Jordan-Wigner fermions, the resulting longitudinal magnetization profiles have a universal character. Namely, after proper rescalings, the profiles in the noncritical Ising chain become identical to those obtained for a critical free-fermion chain starting from a step-like initial state. The relation holds exactly in the entire ferromagnetic phase of the Ising chain and can even be extended to the zero-field XY model by a duality argument. In contrast, for domain-wall excitations that are highly non-local in the fermionic variables, the universality of the magnetization profiles is lost. Nevertheless, for both cases we observe that the entanglement entropy asymptotically saturates at the ground-state value, suggesting a simple form of the steady state.
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