We study the Heisenberg chain with frustration and alternation which is expressed by , both analytically and numerically. We focus on the case, where there is no marginal operator which brings about the logarithmic corrections in various quantities. By using the bosonization method, we calculate the energy gap, the change in the ground-state energy due to the alternation (so-called energy gain), the spin correlation and the string correlation (not only their exponents but also their amplitudes), and compare them with the results of the numerical diagonalization for finite systems. We point out the existence of the logarithmic correction in the energy gain despite the absence of the marginal operator. Taking into account this logarithmic correction, we can obtain a reasonable hyperscaling relation between the critical exponents of the energy gap and an energy gain from the numerical data.
We investigate the ground-state properties of the spin-half ${J}_{1}\ensuremath{-}{J}_{2}$ Heisenberg chain with a next-nearest-neighbor spin-Peierls dimerization using conformal field theory and Lanczos exact diagonalizations. In agreement with the results of a recent bosonization analysis by Sarkar and Sen [Phys. Rev. B
65, 172408 (2002)], we find that for small frustration
(J2/J1) the system is in a Luttinger spin-fluid phase, with gapless excitations, and a finite spin-wave velocity. In the regime of strong frustration the ground state is spontaneously dimerized and the bond alternation reduces the triplet gap, leading to a slight enhancement of the critical point separating the Luttinger phase from the gapped one. An accurate determination of the phase boundary is obtained numerically from the study of the excitation spectrum.