GROUND-STATE REAL-SPACE RENORMALIZATION FOR LINEAR-CHAIN HEISENBERG MODELS WITH ALTERNATION Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Ground-state energy estimates are made via real-space renormalization for linear-chain Heisenberg models of general site spins. The tendency for bond alternation (i.e., Peierls distortion or dimerization) is studied and is found to be obligatory only for the s = 1 2 model, which is thus placed in a different universality class than the other spins s 1. Variational bounds which become exact either for large s or "strong" alternation are obtained for the ground-state energy. 1991.

published proceedings

  • PHYSICA A

author list (cited authors)

  • POSHUSTA, R. D., KLEIN, D. J., & MEKELBURGER, J.

citation count

  • 1

complete list of authors

  • POSHUSTA, RD||KLEIN, DJ||MEKELBURGER, J

publication date

  • January 1991