Bond disorder and breakdown of ballistic heat transport in the spin-12 antiferromagnetic Heisenberg chain as seen in Ca-doped SrCuO 2
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Abstract
We study the impact of a weak bond disorder on the spinon heat transport in the S=1/2 antiferromagnetic (AFM) Heisenberg chain material Sr 1-xCa xCuO 2. We observe a drastic suppression in the magnetic heat conductivity κ mag even at tiny disorder levels (i.e., Ca-doping levels), in stark contrast to previous findings for κ mag of S=1/2 two-dimensional square lattice and two-leg spin-ladder systems, where a similar bond disorder has no effect on κ mag. Hence, our results underpin the exceptional role of integrability of the S=1/2 AFM Heisenberg chain model and suggest that the bond disorder effectively destroys the ballistic nature of its heat transport. We further show that the suppression of κ mag is captured by an effective spinon-impurity scattering length, which exhibits the same doping dependence as the long-distance exponential decay length of the spin-spin correlation as determined by density-matrix renormalization group calculations.
Details
Original language | English |
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Article number | 214419 |
Journal | Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics |
Volume | 84 |
Issue number | 21 |
Publication status | Published - 9 Dec 2011 |
Peer-reviewed | Yes |
External IDs
ORCID | /0000-0002-2438-0672/work/158767786 |
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