Spinon decay in the spin-1/2 Heisenberg chain with weak next nearest neighbour exchange

Integrable models support elementary excitations with infinite lifetimes. In the spin-1/2 Heisenberg chain these are known as spinons. We consider the stability of spinons when a weak integrability breaking perturbation is added to the Heisenberg chain in a magnetic field. We focus on the case where...

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Auteurs principaux: Groha, S, Essler, F
Format: Journal article
Publié: IOP Publishing 2017