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Phase Diagram of Bond-Alternating XXZ chains

arXiv:cond-mat/9511122 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.76.4038

Abstract

The phase transitions between the XY, the dimer and the Haldane phases of the spin-1 bond-alternating XXZ chain are studied by the numerical diagonalization. We determine the phase diagram at and also identify the universality class with the level spectroscopy. We find that exactly on there is a Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition line which separates the XY and the Haldane phase and there exists a multicritical point of the XY, the dimer and the Haldane phases. We discuss that the critical properties of this model is of the 2-D Ashkin-Teller type reflecting the hidden symmetry.

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