One-dimensional electron gas interacting with a Heisenberg spin-1/2 chain
One-dimensional electron gas interacting with a Heisenberg spin-1/2 chain
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一维电子气与海森堡自旋 1/2 链相互作用
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1999
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A. Tsvelik
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O. Zachar;A. Tsvelik
We analyse a model of a one-dimensional electron gas interacting with an antiferromagnetic Heisenberg spin-1/2 chain via the spin exchange interactions. Using a solution at a special limit, we characterize the gapless modes of the spin gap fixed point at weak coupling JK ≪ JH, EF. we show that the only gapless pairing mode with divergent susceptibility is a composite odd-parity odd-frequency singlet pairing order parameter, while the ordinary BCS even-parity singlet pairing mode is incoherent. For 2-leg ladder systems, we note that it is possible to have a range of doping where the chemical potential cuts only the anti-bonding band while the bonding band remains halffilled. We propose that, in such a state, the 2-leg ladder is effectively realizing the one-dimensional Kondo-Heisenberg model. The one-dimensional Kondo-Heisenberg model (K-H model) describes an incommensurate one-dimensional electron gas (1DEG) interacting with a Heisenberg chain of spins- 1 via spin exchange interaction. For the KH model, we show that the only gapless pairing mode with divergent susceptibility is a composite odd-parity odd-frequency singlet pairing order parameter, while the ordinary BCS even-parity singlet pairing mode is incoherent. In addition, we find that the generalized Luttinger’s theorem of Yamanaka et al. [1], is satisfied only by the introduction of a new composite charge density wave (CDW). The composite CDW has power-law correlations with a ”large-Fermi-sea” characteristics, while conventional CDW correlations decay exponentially. We discuss the significance of our results in several contexts: First, our analysis sheds new light on the relations between previous treatments [2,3] of the one-dimensional Kondo-Heisenberg model. Second, we discuss the possibility of effective realization of K-H model physics in 2-leg ladder systems (This possibility was missed in all previous studies of doped 2-leg ladders [4]). Third, we criticize previous suggestions regarding the relevance of K-H model to ”stripes theories” of high-Tc superconductors. The core of our analysis is based on the derivation of a special solvable limit of the K-H model, and the meaning of such a solution within the renormalization group (RG) framework. The previous perturbative RG analysis of the K-H model [2] has shown that the spin exchange interaction flows to some strong coupling fixed point suggesting the formation of a spin gap phase with enhanced pairing correlations. For particular value of parameters we obtain a well-controlled analytical solution which enables us to enumerate and characterize quantum numbers of all gapless modes. Gapless modes are properties of the fixed point. This means that the same gapless modes characterize all models which flow to the same fixed point. In particular, if there is only one fixed point to which all weak coupling K-H models flow, then our analysis is valid for all of them. The K-H model (1) consists of two inequivalent interacting chains; one is a one-dimensional electron gas (described by the Hamiltonian H 1DEG [5]), and the other an antiferromagnetic Heisenberg chain of localized spins 1/2, {~ τ j }. The chains interact via a spin exchange interaction with an antiferromagnetic coupling constant JK > 0.