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Universal Behavior of One-Dimensional Gapped Antiferromagnets in Staggered Magnetic Field

Sergei Maslov, Andrey Zheludev

cond-mat.str-elarXiv:cond-mat/9803393

Abstract

We study the properties of one-dimensional gapped Heisenberg antiferromagnets in the presence of an arbitrary strong staggered magnetic field. For these systems we predict a universal form for the staggered magnetization curve. This function, as well as the effect the staggered field has on the energy gaps in longitudinal and transversal excitation spectra, are determined from the universal form of the effective potential in O(3)-symmetric 1+1--dimensional field theory. Our theoretical findings are in excellent agreement with recent neutron scattering data on R2 Ba Ni O5 (R = magnetic rare earth) linear-chain mixed spin antiferromagnets.

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