Eur. Phys. J. B 6, 335-340 (1998)
https://doi.org/10.1007/s100510050558

Stability of the Haldane state against the antiferromagnetic-bond randomness

Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Okayama University, Okayama 700-8530, Japan

Corresponding author: ^a kitarou@soroban.phys.okayama-u.ac.jp

Received: 31 March 1998
Accepted: 7 July 1998
Published online: 15 December 1998

Abstract

Ground-state phase diagram of the one-dimensional bond-random S=1 Heisenberg antiferromagnet is investigated by means of the loop-cluster-update quantum Monte-Carlo method. The random couplings are drawn from a rectangular uniform distribution. We found that even in the case of extremely broad bond distribution, the magnetic correlation decays exponentially, and the correlation length is hardly changed; namely, the Haldane phase continues to be realized. This result is accordant with that of the exact-diagonalization study, whereas it might contradict the conclusion of an analytic theory founded in a power-law bond distribution instead. The latter theory predicts that a second-order phase transition occurs at a certain critical randomness, and the correlation length diverges for sufficiently strong randomness.