Journal
PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 83, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.83.060407
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- GENCI-CCRT [2010-x2010050225]
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The zero-temperature properties of the SO(5) bilinear-biquadratic Heisenberg chain are investigated by means of a low-energy approach and large-scale numerical calculations. In sharp contrast to the spin-1 SO(3) Heisenberg chain, we show that the SO(5) Heisenberg chain is dimerized with a twofold degenerate ground state. On top of this gapful phase, we find the emergence of a nondegenerate gapped phase with hidden (Z(2) x Z(2))(2) symmetry and spin-3/2 edge states that can be understood from a SO(5) AKLT wave function. We derive a low-energy theory describing the quantum critical point which separates these two gapped phases. It is shown and confirmed numerically that this quantum critical point belongs to the SO(5)(1) universality class.
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