Exact calculation of thermodynamical quantities of the integrable t-J model

The specific heat and the compressibility for the integrable t-J model are calculated showing Luttinger liquid behavior for low temperatures. A Trotter-Suzuki mapping and the quantum transfer matrix approach are utilized. Using an algebraic Bethe ansatz this method permits the exact calculation of the free energy and related quantities. A set of just two non-linear integral equations determining these quantities is studied for various particle densities and temperatures. The structure of the specific heat is discussed in terms of the elementary charge as well as spin excitations.Comment: 4 pages, 5 Postscript figures, uses epsf.sty and revtex, tar'ed, gzip'ed and uuencode

Doping a Mott insulator with orbital degrees of freedom

We study the effects of hole doping on one-dimensional Mott insulators with orbital degrees of freedom. We describe the system in terms of a generalized t-J model. At a specific point in parameter space the model becomes integrable in analogy to the one-band supersymmetric t-J model. We use the Bethe ansatz to derive a set of nonlinear integral equations which allow us to study the thermodynamics exactly. Moving away from this special point in parameter space we use the density-matrix renormalization group applied to transfer matrices to study the evolution of various phases of the undoped system with doping and temperature. Finally, we study a one-dimensional version of a realistic model for cubic titanates which includes the anisotropy of the orbital sector due to Hund's coupling. We find a transition from a phase with antiferromagnetically correlated spins to a phase where the spins are fully ferromagnetically polarized, a strong tendency towards phase separation at large Hund's coupling, as well as the possibility of an instability towards triplet superconductivity

The anisotropic multichannel spin-SS Kondo model: Calculation of scales from a novel exact solution

A novel exact solution of the multichannel spin-$S$ Kondo model is presented, based on a lattice path integral approach of the single channel spin-1/2 case. The spin exchange between the localized moment and the host is of $XXZ$-type, including the isotropic $XXX$ limit. The free energy is given by a finite set of non-linear integral equations, which allow for an accurate determination of high- and low-temperature scales.Comment: 18 pages, 7 figure

Exact trimer ground states on a spin-1 chain

We construct a new spin-1 model on a chain. Its ground state is determined exactly which is three-fold degenerate by breaking translational invariance. Thus we have trimerization. Excited states cannot be obtained exactly, but we determine a few low-lying ones by using trial states, among them solitons

Nonlinear integral equations for the thermodynamics of the sl(4)-symmetric Uimin-Sutherland model

We derive a finite set of nonlinear integral equations (NLIE) for the thermodynamics of the one-dimensional sl(4)-symmetric Uimin-Sutherland model. Our NLIE can be evaluated numerically for arbitrary finite temperature and chemical potentials. We recover the NLIE for sl(3) as a limiting case. In comparison to other recently derived NLIE, the evaluation at low temperature poses no problem in our formulation. The model shows a rich ground-state phase diagram. We obtain the critical fields from the T to zero limit of our NLIE. As an example for the application of the NLIE, we give numerical results for the SU(4) spin-orbital model. The magnetic susceptibility shows divergences at critical fields in the low-temperature limit and logarithmic singularities for zero magnetic field.Comment: 32 pages, 7 figures; references added, minor corrections, final versio

Mixed Heisenberg Chains. II. Thermodynamics

We consider thermodynamic properties, e.g. specific heat, magnetic susceptibility, of alternating Heisenberg spin chains. Due to a hidden Ising symmetry these chains can be decomposed into a set of finite chain fragments. The problem of finding the thermodynamic quantities is effectively separated into two parts. First we deal with finite objects, secondly we can incorporate the fragments into a statistical ensemble. As functions of the coupling constants, the models exhibit special features in the thermodynamic quantities, e.g. the specific heat displays double peaks at low enough temperatures. These features stem from first order quantum phase transitions at zero temperature, which have been investigated in the first part of this work.Comment: 12 pages, RevTeX, 12 embedded eps figures, cf. cond-mat/9703206, minor modification