IMPURITIES IN S=1/2 HEISENBERG ANTIFERROMAGNETIC CHAINS - CONSEQUENCES FOR NEUTRON-SCATTERING AND KNIGHT-SHIFT

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作者
EGGERT, S
AFFLECK, I
机构
[1] GOTHENBURG UNIV, S-41296 GOTHENBURG, SWEDEN
[2] UNIV BRITISH COLUMBIA, DEPT PHYS, VANCOUVER, BC V6T 1Z1, CANADA
[3] UNIV BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADIAN INST ADV RES, VANCOUVER, BC V6T 1Z1, CANADA
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.75.934
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
Nonmagnetic impurities in an S = 1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnetic chain are studied using boundary conformal field theory techniques and finite-temperature quantum Monte Carlo simulations. We calculate the static structure function, S-imp(k), measured in neutron scattering and the local susceptibility, chi(i) measured in Knight shift experiments. S-imp(k) becomes quite large near the antiferromagnetic wave vector, and exhibits much stronger temperature dependence than the bulk structure function. chi(i) has a large component which alternates and increases as a function of distance from the impurity.
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