Unified Quantum Mechanical Picture for Confined Spinons in Dimerized and Frustrated Spin S=1/2 Chains
Abstract
A quantum mechanical picture is presented to describe the behavior of confined spinons in a variety of S=1/2 chains. The confinement is due to dimerization and frustration and it manifests itselfas a nonlinear potential V(x)~ |x|^b, centered at chain ends (b <= 1) or produced by modulation kinks (b > 1). The calculation extends to weak or zero frustration some previous ideas valid for spinons in strongly frustrated spin chains. The local magnetization patterns of the confined spinons are calculated. A (minimum) enhancement of the local moments of about 11/3 over a single S=1/2 is found. Estimates for excitation energies and binding lengths are obtained.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9805245,
title = {Unified Quantum Mechanical Picture for Confined Spinons in Dimerized and Frustrated Spin S=1/2 Chains},
author = {Goetz S. Uhrig and Friedhelm Schoenfeld and Markus Laukamp and Elbio Dagotto},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9805245},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
11.5 pages, Revtex, 10 figures included, accepted by Euro. Phys. J. B final version including some changes, several references added