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Phys. Rev. B 78, 214414 (2008) [10 pages]

Phase diagram and entanglement of the Ising model with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction

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R. Jafari1,2, M. Kargarian3, A. Langari3, and M. Siahatgar3
1Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Zanjan 45195-1159, Iran
2School of Physics, Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics (IPM), P.O. Box 19395-5531, Tehran, Iran
3Department of Physics, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran 11155-9161, Iran

Received 17 May 2008; published 10 December 2008

We have studied the phase diagram and entanglement of the one-dimensional Ising model with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) interaction. We have applied the quantum renormalization-group (QRG) approach to get the stable fixed points, critical point, and the scaling of coupling constants. This model has two phases: antiferromagnetic and saturated chiral ones. We have shown that the staggered magnetization is the order parameter of the system and DM interaction produces the chiral order in both phases. We have also implemented the exact diagonalization (Lanczos) method to calculate the static structure factors. The divergence of structure factor at the ordering momentum as the size of systems goes to infinity defines the critical point of the model. Moreover, we have analyzed the relevance of the entanglement in the model which allows us to shed insight on how the critical point is touched as the size of the system becomes large. Nonanalytic behavior of entanglement and finite-size scaling have been analyzed which is tightly connected to the critical properties of the model. It is also suggested that a spin-fluid phase has a chiral order in terms of spin operators which are defined by a nonlocal transformation.

© 2008 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.78.214414
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevB.78.214414
PACS:
75.10.Pq, 73.43.Nq, 03.67.Mn, 64.60.ae