Unified phase diagram of antiferromagnetic SU( ) spin ladders
Journal Article
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· Physical Review B
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ., Munich (Germany). Physics Dept., Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics, and Center for NanoScience; Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States). Dept. of Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science
- Univ. de Toulouse (France). Lab. de Physique Théorique, IRSAMC
- Univ. de Cergy-Pontoise, Cergy-Pontoise (France). Site de Saint-Martin
- Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States). Dept. of Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science
- Univ. Innsbruck (Austria). Inst. fur Theoretische Physik
Motivated by near-term experiments with ultracold alkaline-earth atoms confined to optical lattices, we establish numerically and analytically the phase diagram of two-leg SU ( N ) spin ladders. Two-leg ladders provide a rich and highly nontrivial extension of the single chain case on the way towards the relatively little explored two-dimensional situation. Focusing on the experimentally relevant limit of one fermion per site, antiferromagnetic exchange interactions, and 2 ≤ N ≤ 6, we show that the phase diagrams as a function of the interchain (rung) to intrachain (leg) coupling ratio, J⊥/J∥, strongly differ for even versus odd N. For even N = 4 and 6, we demonstrate that the phase diagram consists of a single valence bond crystal (VBC) with a spatial period of N/2 rungs. For odd N = 3 and 5, we find surprisingly rich phase diagrams exhibiting three distinct phases. For weak rung coupling, we obtain a VBC with a spatial period of N rungs, whereas for strong coupling we obtain a critical phase related to the case of a single chain. In addition, we encounter intermediate phases for odd N, albeit of a different nature for N = 3 as compared to N = 5. For N = 3, we find a novel gapless intermediate phase with J⊥-dependent incommensurate spatial fluctuations in a sizeable region of the phase diagram. For N = 5 , there are strong indications for a narrow potentially gapped intermediate phase, whose nature is not entirely clear. Lastly, our results are based on (i) field theoretical techniques, (ii) qualitative symmetry considerations, and (iii) large-scale density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) simulations keeping beyond a million of states by fully exploiting and thus preserving the SU (N) symmetry.
- Research Organization:
- Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22)
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0012704
- OSTI ID:
- 1466592
- Alternate ID(s):
- OSTI ID: 1462793
- Report Number(s):
- BNL--207997-2018-JAAM
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review B, Journal Name: Physical Review B Journal Issue: 8 Vol. 98; ISSN 2469-9950; ISSN PRBMDO
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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