Non-magnetic floating phases in frustrated Haldane chains with a single-ion anisotropy

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Hauptverfasser: La Riviere, Bowy M., Chepiga, Natalia
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author La Riviere, Bowy M.
Chepiga, Natalia
author_facet La Riviere, Bowy M.
Chepiga, Natalia
contents We investigate the effect of a single-ion anisotropy on the bilinear-biquadratic spin-1 J1-J2 chain, focusing on the quantum phase transitions out of the trimerized phase. Using large-scale density matrix renormalization group simulations, we uncover a rich phase diagram comprising five gapped phases and, remarkably, two critical floating phases. These incommensurate Luttinger liquid phases emerge from the proliferation of non-magnetic domains - 0-states and dimers - within a trimerized background and are confined to the zero magnetization sector, while magnetic excitations remain gapped. We show that the transition between the topological Haldane phase and the floating phases are governed by a composite critical line with central charge c=2, consistent with a coexistence of magnetic and non-magnetic critical modes. Our results shed new light on the long-standing problem of the Haldane-trimerized transition.
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spellingShingle Non-magnetic floating phases in frustrated Haldane chains with a single-ion anisotropy
La Riviere, Bowy M.
Chepiga, Natalia
Strongly Correlated Electrons
We investigate the effect of a single-ion anisotropy on the bilinear-biquadratic spin-1 J1-J2 chain, focusing on the quantum phase transitions out of the trimerized phase. Using large-scale density matrix renormalization group simulations, we uncover a rich phase diagram comprising five gapped phases and, remarkably, two critical floating phases. These incommensurate Luttinger liquid phases emerge from the proliferation of non-magnetic domains - 0-states and dimers - within a trimerized background and are confined to the zero magnetization sector, while magnetic excitations remain gapped. We show that the transition between the topological Haldane phase and the floating phases are governed by a composite critical line with central charge c=2, consistent with a coexistence of magnetic and non-magnetic critical modes. Our results shed new light on the long-standing problem of the Haldane-trimerized transition.
title Non-magnetic floating phases in frustrated Haldane chains with a single-ion anisotropy
topic Strongly Correlated Electrons
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.25493