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arXiv:cond-mat/9501108 · Physical review. B, Condensed matter

Search for the nondimerized quantum nematic phase in the spin-1 chain

Gábor Fáth, Jenő Sólyom

Published Feb 1, 1995• 97 citations
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Abstract

Chubukov's proposal concerning the possibility of a nondimerized quantum nematic phase in the ground-state phase diagram of the bilinear-biquadratic spin-1 chain is studied numerically. Our results do not support the existence of this phase, but instead they indicate a direct transition from the ferromagnetic into the dimerized phase.

DOI
10.1103/physrevb.51.3620

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We investigate the effect of the Berry phase on quadrupoles that occur, for example, in the low-energy description of spin models. Specifically, we study here the one-dimensional bilinear-biquadratic spin-one model. An open question for many years about this model is whether it has a nondimerized fluctuating nematic phase. The dimerization has recently been proposed to be related to Berry phases of the quantum fluctuations. We use an effective low-energy description to calculate the scaling of the dimerization according to this theory and then verify the predictions using large scale density-matrix renormalization group simulations, giving good evidence that the state is dimerized all the way up to its transition into the ferromagnetic phase. We furthermore discuss the multiplet structure found in the entanglement spectrum of the ground state wave functions.
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