An Effective Theory for Midgap States in Doped Spin Ladder and Spin-Peierls Systems: Liouville Quantum Mechanics
arXiv:cond-mat/9704115 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.57.14242
Abstract
In gapped spin ladder and spin-Peierls systems the introduction of disorder, for example by doping, leads to the appearance of low energy midgap states. The fact that these strongly correlated systems can be mapped onto one dimensional noninteracting fermions provides a rare opportunity to explore systems which have both strong interactions and disorder. In this paper we show that the statistics of the zero energy midgap wave functions in these models can be effectively described by Liouville Quantum Mechanics. This enables us to calculate the disorder averaged N-point correlation functions of these states (the explicit calculation is performed for N=2,3). We find that whilst these midgap states are typically weakly correlated, their disorder averaged correlation are power law. This discrepancy arises because the correlations are not self-averaging and averages of the wave functions are dominated by anomalously strongly correlated configurations.
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