Modern Physics Letters A
RIGOROUS RESULTS FOR THE QUANTUM PHASE TRANSITIONS IN A DIMERIZED S = 1 ISING LATTICE
Haina Wu, Zhihua Yang, Jianhui Dai, He-Ping Ying
Abstract
We examine the ground state properties of a dimerized ferromagnetic S = 1 Ising chain with single-ion crystal fields by mapping the model onto the dimerized S = 1/2 Ising chain with transverse fields. We show that the system exhibits a series of Ising transitions depending on the dimerization strength of the crystal fields, while the critical points can be determined exactly.