Kiyomi Okamoto et al 1999 J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 11 10485 doi:10.1088/0953-8984/11/50/336
Kiyomi Okamoto
, Taskashi Tonegawa
, Yutaka Takahashi§ and Makoto Kaburagi||
We study the ground state of the model Hamiltonian of the trimerized S = 1/2 quantum Heisenberg chain Cu3Cl6(H2O)2
2H8C4SO2 in which a non-magnetic ground state was observed recently. This model consists of stacked trimers and has three kinds of coupling constant describing the couplings between spins: the intra-trimer coupling constant J1 and the inter-trimer coupling constants J2 and J3. All of these constants are assumed to be antiferromagnetic. By use of an analytical method and physical considerations, we show that there are three phases on the
2 -
3 plane (
2
J2 / J1,
3
J3 / J1): the dimer phase, the spin-fluid phase and the ferrimagnetic phase. The dimer phase is caused by the frustration effect. In the dimer phase, there exists an excitation gap between the twofold-degenerate ground state and the first excited state, which explains the non-magnetic ground state observed in Cu3Cl6(H2O)2
2H8C4SO2. We also obtain the phase diagram on the
2 -
3 plane from the numerical diagonalization data for finite systems by use of the Lanczos algorithm.
75.10.Dg Crystal-field theory and spin Hamiltonians
75.60.Ej Magnetization curves, hysteresis, Barkhausen and related effects
75.10.Jm Quantized spin models
75.30.Kz Magnetic phase boundaries (including magnetic transitions, metamagnetism, etc.)
Issue 50 (20 December 1999)
Received 30 July 1999, in final form 30 September 1999
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