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Series expansion analysis of a tetrahedral cluster spin chain

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2009-11-11 v1

Abstract

Using series expansion by continuous unitary transformations we study the magnetic properties of a frustrated tetrahedral spin-1/2 chain. Starting from the limit of isolated tetrahedra we analyze the evolution of the ground state energy and the elementary triplet dispersion as a function of the inter-tetrahedral coupling. The quantum phase diagram is evaluated and is shown to incorporate a singlet product, a dimer, and a Haldane phase. Comparison of our results with those from several other techniques, such as density matrix renormalization group, exact diagonalization and bond-operator theory are provided and convincing agreement is found.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0509371,
  title  = {Series expansion analysis of a tetrahedral cluster spin chain},
  author = {Marcelo Arlego and Wolfram Brenig},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0509371},
  year   = {2009}
}

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6 pages, 5 figures, 1 table