Boundary susceptibility in the spin-1/2 chain: Curie-like behavior without magnetic impurities.
Boundary susceptibility in the spin-1/2 chain: Curie-like behavior without magnetic impurities.
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自旋 1/2 链中的边界磁化率:无磁性杂质的类居里行为。
DOI:
10.1103/physrevlett.92.037206
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发表时间:
2003
影响因子:
8.6
通讯作者:
S. Eggert
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作者:
S. Fujimoto;S. Eggert
We investigate the low-temperature thermodynamics of the spin-1/2 Heisenberg chain with open ends. On the basis of boundary conformal field theory arguments and numerical density matrix renormalization group calculations, it is established that in the isotropic case the impurity susceptibility exhibits a Curie-like divergent behavior as the temperature decreases, even in the absence of magnetic impurities. A similar singular temperature dependence is also found in the boundary contributions of the specific heat coefficient. In the anisotropic case, for 1/2<Delta<1, these boundary quantities still show a singular temperature dependence obeying a power law with an anomalous dimension. Experimental consequences will be discussed.