Excitations with fractional spin less than 1/2 in frustrated magnetoelastic chains
We study the magnetic excitations on top of the plateaux states recently discovered in spin-Peierls systems in a magnetic field. We show by means of extensive density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) computations and an analytic approach that one single spin-flip on top of M = 1-2/N (N=3,4,…) pla...
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2007
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| Acceso en línea: | http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/126409 https://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.75.165104 |
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| Sumario: | We study the magnetic excitations on top of the plateaux states recently discovered in spin-Peierls systems in a magnetic field. We show by means of extensive density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) computations and an analytic approach that one single spin-flip on top of M = 1-2/N (N=3,4,…) plateau decays into N elementary excitations each carrying a fraction 1/N of the spin. This fractionalization goes beyond the well-known decay of one magnon into two spinons taking place on top of the M=0 plateau. Concentrating on the 1/3 plateau (N=3) we unravel the microscopic structure of the domain walls which carry fractional spin-1/3, both from theory and numerics. These excitations are shown to be noninteracting and should be observable in x-ray and nuclear magnetic resonance experiments. |
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