Scaling behavior of the energy gap of spin-1/2 AF-Heisenberg chain in both uniform and staggered fields

TL;DR

This study investigates how the energy gap in a 1D antiferromagnetic Heisenberg chain scales with uniform and staggered magnetic fields, revealing a field-dependent critical exponent and confirming theoretical predictions.

Contribution

It provides a numerical analysis of the energy gap scaling and critical exponent dependence on uniform magnetic fields, aligning with theoretical models.

Findings

Energy gap scales with $h^{ u}$, with $ u$ depending on $H$.

Two regimes identified for the $H$-dependence of the critical exponent.

Numerical results agree with theoretical predictions.

Abstract

We have studied the energy gap of the 1D AF-Heisenberg model in the presence of both uniform ($H$) and staggered ($h$) magnetic fields using the exact diagonalization technique. We have found that the opening of the gap in the presence of a staggered field scales with $h^{\nu}$, where $\nu=\nu(H)$ is the critical exponent and depends on the uniform field. With respect to the range of the staggered magnetic field, we have identified two regimes through which the $H$-dependence of the real critical exponent $\nu(H)$ can be numerically calculated. Our numerical results are in good agreement with the results obtained by theoretical approaches.