Haldane Phase and Large-DPhase of the Spin-1/2 Ferromagnetic-Antiferromagnetic Alternating Heisenberg Chain with On-Site Anisotropy
Kiyomi Okamoto, Dai Nishino, Yôhei Saika
We analytically study the boundary between the Haldane phase and the large- D (LD) phase of a ferromagnetic-antiferromagnetic alternating Heisenberg chain with on-site easy-plane anisotropy. We transform this model into a generalized alternating antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model with anisotropy. In the transformed model, the competition between the transverse and longitudinal alternations results in the Haldane-LD transition. Our Haldane-LD boundary calculated through the bosonization method agrees very well with that of Hida [Phys. Rev. B 46 (1992) 8268], determined by the numerical method.
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan•Aug 15, 1993•12 citations