Journal of Changshu Institute of Technology
Thermodynamic properties in spin-Peierls chain
Xue Jiang
Abstract
Combining the thermal coherent states with the bosonization technique,we develop a self_consistent quantum approach to investigate the dimerized antiferromagnetic Heisenberg chain at finite temperature.In the case of weak dimerization,temperature dependences of the magnetic excited energy gap and the specific heat are calculated analytically.The energy gap monotonically decreases with increasing temperature until it vanishes at the Peierls transition temperature T_P.The specific heat is strongly enhanced near T_P.It is also found that there is a scaling behavior of T_P as a function of the zero_temperature dimerization δ_0 as T_P ∝δ~v_0 with v=(0.66) for small δ_0.Our results are qualitatively consistent with experimental data observed in CuGeO_3.