$S=1/2$ Chain-Boundary Excitations in the Haldane Phase of 1D $S=1$ Systems

Abstract

The $s=1/2$ chain-boundary excitations occurring in the Haldane phaseof $s=1$ antiferromagnetic spin chains are investigated. The bilinear-biquadratic hamiltonian is used to study these excitations as a function of the strength of the biquadratic term, $\beta$, between $-1\le \beta \le 1$. At the AKLT point, $\beta =-1/3$, we show explicitly that these excitations are localized at the boundaries of the chain on a length scale equal to the correlation length $\xi =1/\ln 3$, and that the on-site magnetization for the first site is $<S_1^z>=2/3$. Applying the density matrixrenormalization group we show that the chain-boundaryexcitations remain localized at the boundaries for $-1\le \beta \le 1$. As the two critical points $\beta =\pm 1$ are approached the size of the $s=1/2$ objects diverges and their amplitude vanishes.

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