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Ground state of an distorted diamond chain - model of
We study the ground state of the model Hamiltonian of the trimerized
quantum Heisenberg chain in which
the non-magnetic ground state is observed recently. This model consists of
stacked trimers and has three kinds of coupling constants between spins; the
intra-trimer coupling constant and the inter-trimer coupling constants
and . All of these constants are assumed to be antiferromagnetic. By
use of the analytical method and physical considerations, we show that there
are three phases on the plane (, ), the dimer phase, the spin fluid phase
and the ferrimagnetic phase. The dimer phase is caused by the frustration
effect. In the dimer phase, there exists the excitation gap between the
two-fold degenerate ground state and the first excited state, which explains
the non-magnetic ground state observed in . We also obtain the phase diagram on the
plane from the numerical diagonalization data for finite systems by use of the
Lanczos algorithm.Comment: LaTeX2e, 15 pages, 21 eps figures, typos corrected, slightly detailed
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