Crossover and Changeover in Spin-1 Kitaev-Γ Chain with Uniaxial Single-ion Anisotropy
Abstract
Recent advances in bond-directional spin chains have revealed extensive emergent phenomena and unconventional criticality. Here we investigate the spin-1 Kitaev-Γ chain with uniaxial single-ion anisotropy (SIA) using large-scale density-matrix renormalization group calculations and bosonization analysis. Tuning the SIA strength reveals a crossover from the Kitaev phase to the large-D phase, evidenced by the excitation gap changing from quadratic to linear, the coexistence and smooth evolution of spin-nematic and string order parameters, and the suppression of the double-peak specific heat. For negative SIA, we uncover a changeover from a first-order transition to a continuous one between the dimerized and Haldane phases. The continuous transition belongs to the SU(2)2 Wess-Zumino-Witten universality class with central charge c=3/2, a rare instance in a system without continuous symmetry. Our results establish the Kitaev-Γ chain as a minimal platform for controlling crossover and changeover phenomena.
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