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Spinon confinement and the Haldane gap in SU(n) spin chains

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2015-05-13 v2 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

We use extensive DMRG calculations to show that a classification of SU(n) spin chains with regard to the existence of spinon confinement and hence a Haldane gap obtained previously for valence bond solid models applies to SU(n) Heisenberg chains as well. In particular, we observe spinon confinement due to a next-nearest neighbor interaction in the SU(4) representation 10 spin chain.

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@article{arxiv.0904.3882,
  title  = {Spinon confinement and the Haldane gap in SU(n) spin chains},
  author = {S. Rachel and R. Thomale and M. Fuehringer and P. Schmitteckert and M. Greiter},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0904.3882},
  year   = {2015}
}

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4 pages, 3 figures

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