Abstract
We study the low-energy sector of the Heisenberg necklace model. Using the field-theory methods, we estimate how the coupling of the electronic spins with the paramagnetic Kondo spins affects the overall spin dynamics and evaluate its dependence on a magnetic field. We are motivated by the experimental realizations of the spin-1/2 Heisenberg chains in and cuprates, which remain one-dimensional Luttinger liquids down to temperatures much lower than the in-chain exchange coupling . We consider the perturbation of the energy spectrum caused by the interaction with nuclear spins () present on the same sites. We find that the resulting necklace model has a characteristic energy scale, , at which the coupling between (nuclear) spins of the necklace and the spins of the Heisenberg chain becomes strong. This energy scale is insensitive to a magnetic field . For we find two gapless bosonic modes that have different velocities, whose ratio at strong fields approaches a universal number, .
- Received 1 June 2016
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.94.075152
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