Haldane gaps in a spin-1 Heisenberg chain with easy-plane single-ion anisotropy

We study a Heisenberg antiferromagnetic chain of spin S=1 with nearest-neighbor exchange interaction J and easy-plane single-ion anisotropy D. We follow the splitting of the Haldane gap into two components as a function of the anisotropy. Chains of length up to 16 sites are studied by a Lanczös method and longer chains up to 32 sites have been investigated by a quantum Monte Carlo simulation for D/J=0.10, 0.15, 0.20, and 0.25. A careful finite-size scaling treatment of our data leads to values that are directly relevant to the interpretation of experiments on Ni(${\mathrm{C}}_2$${\mathrm{H}}_8$${\mathrm{N}}_2$${)}_2$${\mathrm{NO}}_2$${\mathrm{ClO}}_4$ (NENP). We discuss the relationship between our results and the magnetic-susceptibility measurements as well as the inelastic-neutron-scattering data and on the Haldane conjecture. Values are proposed for the parameters D and J in the case of NENP.