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Bound states of magnons in the S=1/2 quantum spin ladder
We study the excitation spectrum of the two-leg antiferromagnetic S=1/2
Heisenberg ladder. Our approach is based on the description of the excitations
as triplets above a strong-coupling singlet ground state. The quasiparticle
spectrum is calculated by treating the excitations as a dilute Bose gas with
infinite on-site repulsion. We find singlet (S=0) and triplet (S=1)
two-particle bound states of the elementary triplets. We argue that bound
states generally exist in any dimerized quantum spin model.Comment: 4 REVTeX pages, 4 Postscript figure
Spectrum of elementary and collective excitations in the dimerized S=1/2 Heisenberg chain with frustration
We have studied the low-energy excitation spectrum of a dimerized and
frustrated antiferromagnetic Heisenberg chain. We use an analytic approach,
based on a description of the excitations as triplets above a strong-coupling
singlet ground state. The quasiparticle spectrum is calculated by treating the
excitations as a dilute Bose gas with infinite on-site repulsion. Additional
singlet (S=0) and triplet (S=1) modes are found as two-particle bound states of
the elementary triplets. We have also calculated the contributions of the
elementary and collective excitations into the spin structure factor. Our
results are in excellent agreement with exact diagonalizations and dimer series
expansions data as long as the dimerization parameter is not too small
(), i.e. while the elementary triplets can be treated as localized
objects.Comment: 18 pages, 13 figure
Excitation spectrum of the S=1/2 quantum spin ladder with frustration: elementary quasiparticles and many-particle bound states
We study the excitation spectrum of the two-chain S=1/2 Heisenberg spin
ladder with additional inter-chain second-neighbor frustrating interactions.
The one and two-particle excitations are analyzed by using a mapping of the
model onto a Bose gas of hard-core triplets. We find that low-lying singlet and
triplet two-particle bound states are present and their binding energy
increases with increasing frustration. In addition, many-particle bound states
are found by a combination of variational and exact diagonalization techniques.
We prove that the larger the number of bound quasiparticles the larger the
binding energy. Thus the excitation spectrum has a complex structure and
consists of elementary triplets and collective many-particle singlet and
triplet excitations which generally mix with the elementary ones.
The model exhibits a quantum phase transition from an antiferromagnetic
ladder phase (small frustration) into Haldane phase (effectively ferromagnetic
ladder for large frustration). We argue that near the transition point the
spectrum in both triplet and singlet channels becomes gapless. The excitation
wave function is dominated by large-size bound states which leads to the
vanishing of the quasiparticle residue.Comment: RevTeX, 23 pages, 12 figure
The Spatial, Ionization, and Kinematic Conditions of the z=1.39 Damped Ly-alpha Absorber in Q0957+561 A,B
We examined the sizes of the absorption clouds in a z=1.3911 damped Ly-alpha
absorber (DLA) in the double image lensed quasar Q0957+561 A,B (separation 135
pc at the absorber redshift). Using HIRES/Keck spectra, we studied the MgII
2796,2803 doublet, FeII multiplet, and MgI 2853 transition in absorption. We
defined six "clouds" in the system of sightline A and seven clouds in the
system of sightline B. An examination of the N(v) profiles, using the apparent
optical depth method, reveals no clear physical connection between the clouds
in A and those in B. The observed column density ratios of all clouds is
log[N(MgI)/N(FeII)] ~ -2 across the full velocity range in both systems and
also spatially (in both sightlines). This is a remarkable uniformity not seen
in Lyman limit systems. The uniformity of the cloud properties suggests that
the multiple clouds are not part of a "halo". Based upon photoionization
modeling, we constrain the ionization parameters in the range -6.2 < log(U) <
-5.1, where the range brackets known abundance ratio and dust depletion
patterns. The inferred cloud properties are densities of 2 < n_H < 20 cm^-3,
and line of sight sizes of 1 < D < 25 pc. The masses of the clouds in system A
are 10 < M/M_sun < 1000 and in system B are 1 < M/M_sun < 60 for spherical
clouds. For planar clouds, the upper limits are 400 M_sun and 160 M_sun for A
and B, respectively. We favor a model of the absorber in which the DLA region
itself is a single cloud in thiscomplex, which could be a parcel of gas in a
galactic ISM. A spherical cloud of ~10 pc would be limited to one of the
sightlines (A) and imply a covering factor less than 0.1 for the DLA complex.
We infer that the DLA cloud properties are consistent with those of lower
density, cold clouds in the Galactic interstellar medium.Comment: Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal; final versio
Magnetic properties of (VO)_2P_2O_7: two-plane structure and spin-phonon interactions
Detailed experiments on single-crystal (VO)_2P_2O_7 continue to reveal new
and unexpected features. We show that a model composed of two, independent
planes of spin chains with frustrated magnetic coupling is consistent with
nuclear magnetic resonance and inelastic neutron scattering measurements. The
pivotal role of PO_4 groups in mediating intrachain exchange interactions
explains both the presence of two chain types and their extreme sensitivity to
certain lattice vibrations, which results in the strong magnetoelastic coupling
observed by light scattering. We compute the respective modifications of the
spin and phonon dynamics due to this coupling, and illustrate their observable
consequences on the phonon frequencies, magnon dispersions, static
susceptibility and specific heat.Comment: 10 pages, 9 figure
Parametric generation of second sound in superfluid helium: linear stability and nonlinear dynamics
We report the experimental studies of a parametric excitation of a second
sound (SS) by a first sound (FS) in a superfluid helium in a resonance cavity.
The results on several topics in this system are presented: (i) The linear
properties of the instability, namely, the threshold, its temperature and
geometrical dependencies, and the spectra of SS just above the onset were
measured. They were found to be in a good quantitative agreement with the
theory. (ii) It was shown that the mechanism of SS amplitude saturation is due
to the nonlinear attenuation of SS via three wave interactions between the SS
waves. Strong low frequency amplitude fluctuations of SS above the threshold
were observed. The spectra of these fluctuations had a universal shape with
exponentially decaying tails. Furthermore, the spectral width grew continuously
with the FS amplitude. The role of three and four wave interactions are
discussed with respect to the nonlinear SS behavior. The first evidence of
Gaussian statistics of the wave amplitudes for the parametrically generated
wave ensemble was obtained. (iii) The experiments on simultaneous pumping of
the FS and independent SS waves revealed new effects. Below the instability
threshold, the SS phase conjugation as a result of three-wave interactions
between the FS and SS waves was observed. Above the threshold two new effects
were found: a giant amplification of the SS wave intensity and strong resonance
oscillations of the SS wave amplitude as a function of the FS amplitude.
Qualitative explanations of these effects are suggested.Comment: 73 pages, 23 figures. to appear in Phys. Rev. B, July 1 st (2001
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