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The ground state of an S = 1/2 distorted diamond chain - a model of Cu3Cl6(H2O)2centerdot2H8C4SO2

Kiyomi Okamoto-+, Taskashi Tonegawa++, Yutaka Takahashi§ and Makoto Kaburagi||

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We study the ground state of the model Hamiltonian of the trimerized S = 1/2 quantum Heisenberg chain Cu3Cl6(H2O)2cdot2H8C4SO2 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 tildeJ2 - tildeJ3 plane (tildeJ2equivalentJ2 / J1, tildeJ3equivalentJ3 / 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)2centerdot2H8C4SO2. We also obtain the phase diagram on the tildeJ2 - tildeJ3 plane from the numerical diagonalization data for finite systems by use of the Lanczos algorithm.


PACS

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

75.50.Ee Antiferromagnetics

75.30.Kz Magnetic phase boundaries (including magnetic transitions, metamagnetism, etc.)

75.50.Gg Ferrimagnetics

Subjects

Condensed matter: electrical, magnetic and optical

Dates

Issue 50 (20 December 1999)

Received 30 July 1999, in final form 30 September 1999



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