Quantum bicritical point and phase separation in a frustrated Heisenberg ladder

Abstract

We use the density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) and a hard-core boson map to investigate the quantum phase transitions present in the phase diagram of the frustrated Heisenberg ladder in a magnetic field. The quantum bicritical point is observed at the end of a first-order transition line, which is at the meeting of the two second-order transition lines that bound the fully polarized plateau. The characterization of the bicritical point was made using a hard-core boson mapping of the low-energy excitations from the fully polarized phase and through DMRG by studying the probability density of finding the rung spins in a singlet or a triplet state with zero spin component along the magnetic field. In particular, we give conditions for the exchange couplings for the presence of the first-order transition line and the bicritical point in the phase diagram. Moreover, we unveil the phase-separated states for magnetization values inside the magnetization jump and, in particular, the dependence on the system size of the energy curve as a function of magnetization. Finite-size scaling analysis of the transverse spin correlation functions has been used to estimate the critical points of the Kosterlitz-Thouless transitions from the fractional magnetization plateau $m=1/2$ to the respective gapless Luttinger liquid phases for some sets of parameters.

arXiv comment14 pages, 14 figures

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