Field-controlled spin current in frustrated spin chains
C Physik
Abstract
We study states with spontaneous spin current, emerging in frustrated antiferromagnetic spin-S chains subject to a strong external magnetic eld. As a numerical tool, we use a non-Abelian symmetry realization of the density matrix renormalization group. The eld dependence of the order parameter and the critical exponents are presented for zigzag chains with S = 1=2, 1, 3=2, and 2.