Floating Phase in 1D Transverse ANNNI Model

Abstract

To study the ground state of ANNNI chain under transverse field as a function of frustration parameter $\kappa$ and field strength $\Gamma$, we present here two different perturbative analyses. In one, we consider the (known) ground state at $\kappa=0.5$ and $\Gamma=0$ as the unperturbed state and treat an increase of the field from 0 to $\Gamma$ coupled with an increase of $\kappa$ from 0.5 to $0.5+r\Gamma$ as perturbation. The first order perturbation correction to eigenvalue can be calculated exactly and we could conclude that there are only two phase transition lines emanating from the point $\kappa=0.5$, $\Gamma=0$. In the second perturbation scheme, we consider the number of domains of length 1 as the perturbation and obtain the zero-th order eigenfunction for the perturbed ground state. From the longitudinal spin-spin correlation, we conclude that floating phase exists for small values of transverse field over the entire region intermediate between the ferromagnetic phase and antiphase.