Ground-State Properties of Alternating-Spin XXZ Chains
Takashi Ono, Takeshi Nishimura, M. Katsumura +2 more
Ground-state properties of ferrimagnetic XXZ chains with alternating spins S A and S B with nearest-neighbor exchange interaction are discussed based upon the results for finite-size systems obtained mainly by the exact diagonalization method and partly by the density matrix renormalization group method. For -1<Δ<1, where Δ is the parameter of anisotropy of the interactions, the ground state is unique or doubly degenerate and gapless. When Δ=1, the ground state of 2 N sites is the state with total spin N | S A - S B |, and has nonvanishing Néel long-range order parameter. For Δ>1, the ground state is doubly degenerate Néel long-range ordered state with a finite energy gap.
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan•Sep 15, 1997•26 citations