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Magnon Wave-function and Impurity Effects in S=1 Antiferromagnetic Chains: A Large-n Approach

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2012-02-27 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

A large-n approximation to the S=1 antiferromagnetic chain, using the symmetric tensor representation and its conjugate, is developed to order 1/n in order to calculate the magnon wave-function and to study the effect of modifying the exchange coupling from J to J' on a single link. It is shown that a magnon boundstate exists below the Haldane gap for arbitrarily small negative J'-J but only above a certain critical value of J'-J for positive values. In the former case the binding energy vanishes as the square of (J-J').

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9808345,
  title  = {Magnon Wave-function and Impurity Effects in S=1 Antiferromagnetic Chains: A Large-n Approach},
  author = {Alistair Savage and Ian Affleck},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9808345},
  year   = {2012}
}

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revtex, 22 pages, 15 eps figures