Zero Modes and Thermodynamics of Disordered Spin-1/2 Ladders

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dc.creatorGogolin, Alexander O.
dc.creatorNersesyan, Alexander A.
dc.creatorTsvelik, Alexei M.
dc.creatorYu, Lu
dc.date1997-07-31
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T09:12:00Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T09:12:00Z
dc.descriptionThe influence of nonmagnetic doping on the thermodynamic properties of two-leg S = 1/2 spin ladders is studied in this paper. It is shown that, for a weak interchain coupling, the problem can be mapped onto a model of random mass Dirac (Majorana) fermions. We investigate in detail the structure of the fermionic states localized at an individual mass kink (zero modes) in the framework of a generalized Dirac model. The low-temperature thermodynamic properties are dominated by these zero modes. We use the single-fermion density of states, known to exhibit the Dyson singularity in the zero-energy limit, to construct the thermodynamics of the spin ladder. In particular, we find that the magnetic susceptibility $χ$ diverges at $T\to 0$ as $1/T\ln^2(1/T)$, and the specific heat behaves as $C\propto 1/\ln^3(1/T)$. The predictions on magnetic susceptibility are consistent with the most recent results of quantum Monte Carlo simulations on doped ladders with randomly distributed impurities. We also calculate the average staggered magnetic susceptibility induced in the system by such defects.
dc.description26 pages, 1 Postscript figure, LaTeX
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9707341
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9707341
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/151880
dc.subjectDisordered Systems and Neural Networks
dc.subjectStrongly Correlated Electrons
dc.titleZero Modes and Thermodynamics of Disordered Spin-1/2 Ladders
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