Chinese Physics B

Role of the spin anisotropy of the interchain interaction in weakly coupled antiferromagnetic Heisenberg chains*

Yuchen Fan, Rong Yu

Published Mar 23, 2020• 5 citations

Abstract

In quasi-one-dimensional (q1D) quantum antiferromagnets, the complicated interplay of intrachain and interchain exchange couplings may give rise to rich phenomena. Motivated by recent progress on field-induced phase transitions in the q1D antiferromagnetic (AFM) compound YbAlO3, we study the phase diagram of spin-1/2 Heisenberg chains with Ising anisotropic interchain couplings under a longitudinal magnetic field via large-scale quantum Monte Carlo simulations, and investigate the role of the spin anisotropy of the interchain coupling on the ground state of the system. We find that the Ising anisotropy of the interchain coupling can significantly enhance the longitudinal spin correlations and drive the system to an incommensurate AFM phase at intermediate magnetic fields, which is understood as a longitudinal spin density wave (LSDW). With increasing field, the ground state changes to a canted AFM order with transverse spin correlations. We further provide a global phase diagram showing how the competition between the LSDW and the canted AFM states is tuned by the Ising anisotropy of the interchain coupling.

DOI: 10.1088/1674-1056/ab820b

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We study isotropic antiferromagnetic Heisenberg chains coupled by antiferromagnetic Ising interaction as an effective spin model for the ytterbium aluminum perovskite

{\mathrm{YbAlO}}_{3}

. Using the density-matrix renormalization group (DMRG) method we calculate the magnetization curve, local spin, central charge, and dynamical spin structure factors in the presence of magnetic field. From the fitting of the experimental magnetization curve, the effective intrachain and interchain couplings are estimated as

J=2.3

K and

{J}_{\mathrm{ic}}=0.8

K, respectively. We can quantitatively explain the experimental observations: (i) phase transition from antiferromagnetic to incommensurate order at field 0.35 T, and (ii) quantum critical behaviors at the saturation field of 1.21 T. Furthermore, the low-energy excitations in the experimental inelastic neutron scattering spectra can be well described by our DMRG results of the dynamical structure factors.

The quantum many-body interactions in one-dimensional spin-

\frac{1}{2}

systems are subject to Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid (TLL) physics, which predict an array of multiparticle excitations that form continua in momentum-energy space. Here we use inelastic neutron spectroscopy to study the TLL spin dynamics in

{\mathrm{SrCo}}_{2}{\mathrm{V}}_{2}{\mathrm{O}}_{8}

, a compound which contains weakly coupled spin-

\frac{1}{2}

chains of Co atoms, at 0.05 K and in a longitudinal magnetic field up to 9.0 T. The measurements were performed above 3.9 T, where the ground-state N\'eel antiferromagnetic (AFM) order is completely suppressed and the multiparticle excitations are exclusively of the TLL type. In this region and below 7.0 T, the longitudinal TLL mode---psinon/antipsinon (P/AP)---is unexpectedly well described by a damped harmonic oscillator (DHO) while approaching the zone center defining the static spin-spin correlations. A non-DHO-type, continuumlike signal is seen at higher fields, but deviations from the ideal one-dimensional TLL still remain. This change in the P/AP mode coincides with the phase transition between the longitudinal spin density wave (LSDW) and transverse AFM order. Inside the LSDW state, the DHO-type P/AP spectral weight increases and the linewidth broadens as the magnetic order parameter decreases. These results reveal the impact of three-dimensional magnetic order on the TLL spin dynamics; they call for beyond-mean-field treatment for the interchain exchange interactions.

We study the interplay of electric and magnetic order in the one-dimensional Heisenberg spin-

\frac{1}{2}

XXZ chain with large Ising anisotropy in the presence of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) interaction and with longitudinal and transverse magnetic fields, interpreting the DM interaction as a coupling between the local electric polarization and an external electric field. We obtain the ground state phase diagram using the density matrix renormalization group method and compute various ground state quantities like the magnetization, staggered magnetization, electric polarization and spin correlation functions, etc. In the presence of both longitudinal and transverse magnetic fields, there are three different phases corresponding to a gapped N\'eel phase with antiferromagnetic (AF) order, gapped saturated phase, and a critical incommensurate gapless phase. The external electric field modifies the phase boundaries but does not lead to any new phases. Both external magnetic fields and electric fields can be used to tune between the phases. We also show that the transverse magnetic field induces a vector chiral order in the N\'eel phase (even in the absence of an electric field) which can be interpreted as an electric polarization in a direction parallel to the AF order.

We quantify the stability of the formation of multipolar states against always present interchain couplings in quasi-one-dimensional spin-

\frac{1}{2}

chain systems with a frustrating in-chain ${J}_{1}\ensuremath{-}{J}_{2}$ exchange, including parameter regimes that are of direct relevance to many edge-shared cuprate spin-chain compounds. Three representative types of antiferromagnetic interchain coupling and the presence of uniaxial exchange anisotropy are considered. The magnetic phase diagrams are determined by density matrix renormalization group calculations and completed by very accurate analytic and numerical results for the nematic and the dipolar phases employing the hard-core-boson approach. We establish that a sizable interchain coupling has a strong influence on the possible instability of multipolar phases at high magnetic fields in the vicinity of the saturation fields in favor of the usual dipolar one-magnon phase. Moreover, skew interchain couplings strongly affect the pitch of spiral states. Our theoretical results bring to the fore candidate materials close to quantum nematic/triatic ordering.