Spin-orbit interaction in the supersymmetric antiferromagnetic t-J chain with a magnetic impurity
The effect of spin-orbit interaction in the strongly correlated exactly solvable electron model with magnetic impurity is studied. The considered magnetic impurity reveals the property of a “mobile” one. It is shown that the asymptotics of correlation functions, calculated in the framework of the co...
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© A.A. Zvyagin, 2014
Low Temperature Physics/Fizika Nizkikh Temperatur, 2014, v. 40, No. 1, pp. 83–91
Spin-orbit interaction in the supersymmetric
antiferromagnetic t-J chain with a magnetic impurity
A.A. Zvyagin
Max-Planck Institut für Physik Komplexer Systeme, 38 Nőthnitzer Str., Dresden D-01187, Germany
B.I. Verkin Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
47 Lenin Ave., Kharkov 61103, Ukraine
E-mail: zvyagin@ilt.kharkov.ua
Received July 9, 2013
The effect of spin-orbit interaction in the strongly correlated exactly solvable electron model with magnetic
impurity is studied. The considered magnetic impurity reveals the property of a “mobile” one. It is shown that
the asymptotics of correlation functions, calculated in the framework of the conformal field theory and finite size
corrections of the Bethe ansatz exact solution, are strongly affected by both, the spin-orbit coupling, and by the
magnetic impurity.
PACS: 71.10.Fd Lattice fermion models (Hubbard model, etc.);
71.10.Pm Fermions in reduced dimensions (anyons, composite fermions, Luttinger liquid, etc.);
75.10.Pq Spin chain models;
75.70.Tj Spin-orbit effects.
Keywords: low-dimensional electron systems, magnetic impurity, spin-orbit interaction.
1. Introduction
Recently the interest in systems with the spin-orbit in-
teraction has been grown. For example, the spin-orbit in-
teraction manifests itself in the effect of an electric field on
a moving particle with spin. Such interest is connected
with spintronics, where the spin of electrons in electronic
devices has to be manipulated and detected. In many de-
vices of spintronics an interaction between electrons also
has to be taken into account, hence, it is very important to
investigate the effects of the spin-orbit coupling together
with the antiferromagnetic spin-spin interaction between
spin of electrons. In low-dimensional semiconductor struc-
tures the internal electric field may exist [1] so that the
spin-orbit coupling takes place even without external elec-
tric fields. Recently systems, where the spin-orbit interac-
tion plays the crucial role in low-dimensional electron sys-
tems, like edge or surface states of topological insulators
[2], or semiconductor nanowires [3] have attracted much
attention of researchers.
The strong electron–electron coupling can essentially
change the properties of electron systems with spin-orbit
interaction, especially in low-dimensional electron sys-
tems, where fluctuations are strongly enhanced due to the
peculiarities in the density of states, and, hence, exact theo-
retical results are very important. On the other hand, mag-
netic impurities affect the behavior of electron systems, the
famous Kondo effect is the prime example [4].
The aim of the present work is twofold. First, we want to
study the effect of the spin-orbit coupling and electron–
electron interaction in a low-dimensional correlated electron
system. Second, we decide to investigate how the magnetic
impurity can affect the exponents for correlation functions in
such a strongly correlated electron chain. As the model for
studying we choose the model, which, on the one hand, has
both of these features, i.e., it has spin-orbit and electron–
electron interaction, and the magnetic impurity can change
the properties of such a system considerably. On the other
hand, that model permits to obtain an exact solution. Exact
solutions are rare, and, some of the features of exactly solv-
able Hamiltonians are not very realistic, however it is very
important to obtain results for exactly solvable models, be-
cause they give the only opportunity to check the validity of
the results of approximate methods applied to more realistic
models. Also, sometimes the results of exactly solvable
models can be directly applied to real systems, systems of
ultracold atoms being the prime example of such an applica-
tion [5] (for the recent review, use, e.g., Ref. 6). It is im-
portant to add that the study of artificially designed spin-
orbit interaction in ultracold atomic gases, mimicking effects
from condensed matter physics, is now coming of age, mak-
ing our research timely.
A.A. Zvyagin
84 Low Temperature Physics/Fizika Nizkikh Temperatur, 2014, v. 40, No. 1
In this paper, using the exact Bethe ansatz method and
the conformal field theory technique we have studied the
properties of a strongly correlated electron chain, the
supersymmetric t-J model with spin-orbit interaction. We
show that the spin-orbit coupling manifests itself mostly in
finite-size effects there. However, those finite-size effects
determine the values of critical exponents for the considered
system. In particular, we show that the spin-orbit coupling
strongly renormalizes exponents for density-density, field-
field, spin-spin, and spin-singlet and spin-triplet pair correla-
tion functions of the considered chain. Also, we show that
the features of the exactly solvable magnetic impurity pro-
vide influence of the impurity on exponents of the correla-
tion functions, which does not depend on the position of the
impurity. This feature is caused by the non-reflective charac-
ter of the integrable impurity. Our investigation shows that
the impurity can drastically change the values of critical
exponents for correlation functions in the correlated electron
chain with the internal spin-orbit interaction.
2. The model
The hopping of the one-dimensional (1d) tight-binding
electron system in the presence of the internal spin-orbit
interaction can be written in the form [7]
†
, ,1,, ,
( h.c.),jjj
t S where ,S is the
SU(2)-symmetric matrix. This hopping term can be trans-
formed to the diagonal term by a unitary transformation
[7], which rotates the spin space. The matrix ,S is a
unitary one, thus its eigenvalues can be presented as expo-
nentials exp( ).i Parameters t and ,S can be site-
dependent, however, the diagonalization of the hopping
term is possible in that case, too, cf. Ref. 7. This transfor-
mation can be also applied for any form of the electron–
electron interaction, if the latter respects SU(2) symmetry.
In what follows we will essentially use that property.
Let us start with the consideration of the 1d lattice ver-
sion of the electron gas with the internal spin-orbit interac-
tion, the Hamiltonian of which can be written as [7]
† †
0 , ,1, 1,
,
= [ ( h.c.) (j jj j
j
t i
†2 2 2
, ,1,
,
h.c.) ] = [ ( ) /4( e
zi
j jj
j
n t
,h.c.) ] ,jn (1)
where
†
,j creates the electron with the spin projection
= 1/2 at the lattice site j ( = 1, ,j L , L is the num-
ber of sites), t is the hopping integral, is the parameter
of the spin-orbit coupling (see, e.g., Refs. 2, 3), and
†
, ,,= .j jjn Then the “usual” spin-independent hop-
ping has the magnitude cos(2 ),t and the internal spin-
orbit coupling has the magnitude sin(2 ),t
2 2= ( ) /4.t t Worth noting that for =1/4 there is
no “usual” hopping, and only spin-dependent transfer of
electrons persists, as for edge states of 2d topological insu-
lators [2] (notice, however, that for topological insulators
the spin-dependent transfer is chiral, i.e., electrons with
spin up can move only to the right, and those with spin
down to the left, or vice versa). Using the (spin-dependent)
gauge transformation we can remove the explicit depend-
ence on the phase factor from the 1d Hamiltonian to twist-
ed boundary conditions. Such a transformation can be used
also for Hamiltonians, which interaction part also respects
U(1) symmetry (it, naturally, persists for SU(2)-symmetric
interactions). For instance, it takes place for the
supersymmetric t-J chain with the antiferromagnetic inter-
action between neighboring electrons. Supersymmetry
implies the fixed ratio between the parameter of the elec-
tron hopping t and the antiferromagnetic exchange inte-
gral J [8]. The Hamiltonian for the supersymmetric anti-
ferromagnetic t-J chain with internal spin-orbit coupling
has the form host , 1= ,j j
j
t where
† †
, 1 1, ,, 1,= ( )j j j jj j
† † † †
, 1, , 1,, 1, , 1,j j j jj j j j
, 1, , 1, ,j j j jn n n n (2)
where the hopping 2 2= ( ) /4,t t and the standard for
t-J chains projector operator , 1,= (1 )(1 )j jn n
excludes double occupation at each site of the chain. The
electron–electron interaction term has the standard Heisen-
berg antiferromagnetic form 1j jS S written using the
operators of creation and destruction of electrons. The total
exactly solvable by Bethe ansatz (BA) Hamiltonian of the
system with a magnetic impurity [8] can be written as
host imp= . The impurity’s part of the Hamiltonian
(for an impurity situated at the site labeled as imp, for ex-
ample, between the sites labelled by the numbers m and
1,m see Fig. 1) is
Fig. 1. The illustration of the coupling of the impurity to the host
chain in the considered model. The impurity is situated between
sites m and m + 1 of the host chain.
imp
m m + 1
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Low Temperature Physics/Fizika Nizkikh Temperatur, 2014, v. 40, No. 1 85
imp ,imp imp, 12 2
( , | )
= (
( 1/2)
m m
M M
S
, 1 ,imp imp, 12 ( 1) { , }m m m mS S
, mp imp, 12 [ , ]) ,m i mi (3)
where {.,.} ( [.,.] ) denote anticommutator (commutator)
and ( , | )M M denotes the Clebsch–Gordan coeffi-
cient
1 1
( , | )
2 2
S M S SM with = 1/2.S S S defines
the spin of the impurity. The real parameter regulates
the impurity-host coupling. For the impurity is
totally decoupled from the chain. On the other hand, for
= 1/2S and = 0 we have a simple addition of one site to
the chain, i.e., 1.L L Terms in the Hamiltonian
imp , proportional to the commutator and anticommutator,
are irrelevant from the renormalization group viewpoint
(though they are important for the exact solvability), and
they can be neglected in the long-wave limit. If the impuri-
ty is situated at the edge of the open chain (i.e., for = )m L
we see that the Hamiltonian becomes simpler: The impuri-
ty is coupled to the last site of the chain with the coupling
strength, which is determined by two parameters, S and
, which distinguish the impurity site from other sites of
the chain. It can be checked that the gauge transformation,
which removes the spin-orbit phase shift from the Hamil-
tonian for open boundary conditions and transfers it to
twisted boundary conditions for the closed chain, can be
applied also when the impurity interaction is included.
3. Bethe ansatz description
The stationary Schrödinger equation for the considered
model can be solved exactly by BA for the magnetic field
H applied along the distinguished by the spin-orbit cou-
pling direction. For any other direction of the field H ex-
citations become gapped with the gap value
2 2 /4.H For twisted (due to the internal spin-orbit
coupling) boundary conditions BA equations for two sets
of quantum numbers (rapidities) jv ( =1, , ,j N where
N is the number of electrons) and ( =1, , ,M
where M is the number of electrons with spin down) can
be written as
2
=1
/2 /2
e ,
/2 /2
M
j j j
j j j
iS i i
iS i i
v v v
v v v
=1
/2(2 1)/2
(2 1)/2 /2
N
j
jj
ii S
i S i
v
v
4
=1
e .
M i
i
(4)
The energy of the eigenstate is equal to
2
2
=1
1 42
= 2 ,
1 4
N
j
j j
vN N M
E H t
L L v
(5)
i.e., rapidities parametrize eigenvalues (as well as eigen-
functions) of the Hamiltonian for given N and M.
The problem can be also solved exactly for open bounda-
ries. In that case the spin-dependent phase factor can be to-
tally removed from the 1d Hamiltonian with the help of the
gauge transformation [8]. In that case eigenvalues and ei-
genvectors of the Hamiltonian depend on the spin-orbit
coupling only in the trivial way 2 2= ( ) /4,t t like for
the homogeneous Hubbard chain [9].
We can introduce the low-energy spin scale
exp( | |),KT t which plays the role of the Kondo
temperature for spin degrees of freedom of the considered
model [8]. The parameters of the internal spin-orbit cou-
pling appear in BA equations twofold: As the renormaliza-
tion of the hopping constant t due to , and, hence, of the
Kondo temperature ,KT and via the phase factor in BA
equations. The former can be trivially taken into account in
magnetic and temperature dependences of the magnetic
moment of the impurity. Contrary, the latter can manifest
itself only in finite size corrections [8]. The most important
manifestation of the latter can be seen in the asymptotics of
correlation functions and in persistent currents. For persis-
tent currents the phase factor reveals itself in the initial
phase of charge and spin (Aharonov–Bohm–Casher effect
[10]) persistent currents [11]. The former can be calculated
with the help of the finite-size corrections to the BA
ground-state eigenvalues using the conformal field theory.
The ground state of the considered models is organized as
usual for all Fermi systems: All states with negative ener-
gies (Fermi seas) are filled, while other states are non-
occupied. For the supersymmetric t-J model with antifer-
romagnetic interactions between spin of neighboring elec-
trons there are two Fermi seas [8]: for unbound electron
excitations, which carry charge e and spin 1/2, and for
spin-singlet pairs, which carry only charge 2e and no spin.
4. Finite-size corrections
Let us start first with the homogeneous case, which can
be obtained for . We can introduce two sets of
counting functions ( =1, 2)i
2
0 0
, ,
=1 =1
1 1
( ) = ( ) [2 ( , )] ,
2
N j
i L i i ij j l
j l
z x p x x u
L
(6)
where 1 = , 2 = 0, and , ,= ( )/i L i Lz x x with
0 0( , ) = ( , ),ij jix y y x which satisfy BA equations, cf.
Eqs. (4) , ,( ) = / ,i L j i jz J L where 1, 2= /2jJ N (mod 1)
and 2, 1 2= ( 1)/2jJ N N (mod 1), ,j lu are rapidities.
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Here we use 1 =N M and 2 = 2 ,N N M the number of
unbound electrons (2M is the number of paired ones).
The functions are
0 1 0 1
1 2( ) = 2 tan 2 , ( ) = 2 tan ,p x x p x x
0 1 0
12 11( , ) = 2 tan [2( )] , = 0 ,x y x y
0 1
22 ( , ) = 2 tan ( ) .x y x y (7)
The momentum and energy of the state with N electrons,
M of which having their spin down are
2 2
0
0 ,
=1 =1 =1 =1
2
= , = ( ),
N Ni i
ij i i j
i j i j
P J E E u
L
(8)
where
0
1 1( ) = 2 [1 ( )] ,
2
H
x t a x
0
2 2( ) = 2 2 [2 ( )] ,x t a x (9)
which are energies of an unbound electron excitation and a
pair, respectively, if we neglect interactions, and
2 2( ) = 2 / [4 ].ma x m x m Let us choose two sets of num-
bers 1 1 =J J L N M and 2 2 = ,J J L N
1 1 1 1= 2 2 ,J J D and 2 2 2 2= 2 2J J D that de-
termine numbers of particles in each Dirac sea for low-
lying excitations and numbers of particles which are trans-
ferred from the left Fermi point of excitations of each kind
to the right Fermi point. With this choice ,i jJ are all num-
bers satisfying the conditions , < ,i j iJ J , > ,i j iJ J
= 1, 2.i By using the Euler–Maclaurin formula, we can
derive the following equations:
0 2
, ,
=1
( )1
( ) = ( , ) ( )
2
i
i L ij j L
j
dp x
x dyK x y y
dx
2
, ,
( , ) ( , )1 1 1
,
24 ( ) ( )
ij j ij j
j L j j L j
K x K x
x xL
(10)
where 0( , ) = ( , )/ .ij ijK x y x y x Here i satisfy the equa-
tions , ( ) = / .i L i iz J L Notice that for the case of a
supersymmetric antiferromagnetic t-J chain integrations
are performed not from j to ,j as, e.g., for the Hub-
bard chain, but from to j and from j to . The
equations for , ( )i L x can be written in the form
, 1,2 1,2( ) = ( | , )i L ix x
2
1,2 1,2 1,2 1,2
2
=1 , ,
( | , ) ( | , )1
,
24 ( ) ( )
j j
j j L j j L j
x x
L
(11)
where 1,2 1,2( | , )x and 1,2 1,2( | , )i x are the solu-
tions of the following linear integral equations:
0
1,2 1,2
( )1
( | , ) =
2
i
i
dp x
x
dx
2
1,2 1,2
=1
( , ) ( | , ) ,ij j
j
dyK x y y
2
1,2 1,2
=1
( , )1
( | , ) =
2
ij j
i
j
K x
x
x
1,2 1,2( , ) ( | , ) .ij jdyK x y y (12)
We can convert the integrals from to j and from j
to to the ones from j to j by using a Fourier trans-
formation. That conversion implies the formal changes
11 22,K K 22 0,K
0
2 0,p
0
1 12( )/ ( ),dp x dx K x
0
1 21( ) ( ,0),x H tK x and
0
2 ( ) 2 ( /2),x t H and
1 1. After such a transformation we get
1 2
1, 2,
1 2
( ) = 1 , ( ) = 1 .L L
N M N
dx x dx x
L L
(13)
Then the energy of the state can be written as
0= ( , )i iE E L
2
=1 , ,
( , ) ( , )1
,
24 ( ) ( )
i i i i i i
i i L i i L i
e e
L
(14)
where
2
0
1,2 1,2
=1
( , ) = ( ) ( | , ) ,
j
i i j j
j
j
dx x x (15)
and
0 ( )
( , ) = i i
i i i
i
d
e
d
2
0
1,2 1,2
=1
( ) ( | , ) .
j
j j
j
j
dx x x (16)
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Low Temperature Physics/Fizika Nizkikh Temperatur, 2014, v. 40, No. 1 87
Naturally, these equations can be re-written in terms of
dressed energies
02
1,2 1,2
=1
( )1
( , ) = ( | , ) ,
2
i
i
i i i
i
i
dp x
dx x
dx
(17)
where the dressed energies 1,2 1,2( | , )i x satisfy the set
of equations
0
1,2 1,2( | , ) = ( )i ix x
2
1,2 1,2
=1
( , ) ( | , ),
j
t
ij j
j
j
dyK x y y (18)
where the index t denotes transposition, which implies
0
1,2 1,2
=
( | , )
( , ) = | .
i
i i i x i
x
e
x
(19)
In the infinite chain ( , )i i is minimal with respect
to i at given and H . This condition leads to
1,2 1,2( | , ) = 0,i i (20)
which is the determination of the ground-state Fermi points
for dressed energies. Expanding ( , )i i to the second
order in ( ),i i we find
( , ) = ( , )i i i i
2 1,2 1,2 =
1,2 1,2=1
( | , ) |
( | , )
j x j
j jj
x
x
2
1,2 1,2
1
([ ( | , )( )]
2
j j j j
2
1,2 1,2[ ( | , )( )] ).j j j j (21)
This equation is written with the accuracy of 2L . It turns
out that
1,2 1,2 =
1,2 1,2
1
( | , ) | = 2 ,
( | , )
F
j x jj
j j
x
x
v
(22)
where F
jv are Fermi velocities of low-lying excitations. It
is easy to check that for =i i the equations for
1,2 1,2( | , )i x and 1,2 1,2( | , )i x coincide with
the standard definitions of densities and dressed energies
for the ground state in the thermodynamic limit. Let us
denote = / ,i iN L = ( )/i i iD L and calculate
= = ( | , ) ,i i
j j j j ji
j j
Z
11
= = ( | , )( ) ,
2
ti i
j j j j ji
j j
Z (23)
where we introduced dressed charge matrix .ijZ Dressed
charge matrix can be expressed as = ( ),ij ij iZ where
( )ij x satisfy the set of integral equations
2
=1
( ) = ( , ) ( ) .
l
t
ij ij il lj
l
l
x dyK x y y (24)
Again, the coefficients of the dressed charge matrix satisfy
the relation ( ) = ( )/ ,ij i jx x where i are effective
chemical potentials for low-lying excitations, 1 = H and
2 = ( /2).H A dressed charge matrix measures how
strong the interaction is in a system. For the noninteracting
electron chain without magnetic impurities the dressed
charge matrix is the unity matrix. At the half-filling one
has only one Fermi sea for unbound electron excitations.
The results can be obtained for the formal limit 2 = 0Fv
and 11 21 12= = = 0,Z Z Z and 22 1= ( ).sZ Here ( )s
is the solution of the equation
| | 1
1 exp( [ ] )
( ) = ( ) .
2 2 1 exp(| |)
S s
dx i x
d
x
(25)
In this limit the supersymmetric t-J correlated electron
chain is equivalent to the antiferromagnetic spin-1/2 Hei-
senberg chain (electrons cannot move from site to site, and
the only possible movement is the one for spin flips). For
the spin chain the spin-orbit coupling is similar to the
Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction [12].
By using dressed charges and velocities of low-lying
excitations it is easy to write
2 2
0
=1 =1
2
= ( , ) ,
6
F F
i i i i i
i i
E E L
L L
v v (26)
where
2
2
1 1
=1
= ( )j j j j
j
Z D L
2
22 1 1 21 2 22
1
[ ( ( , ) ) ( ( , ) )] ,
4(det )
Z N H L Z N H L
Z
2
2
2 2
=1
= ( )j j j j
j
Z D L
12 1 12
1
[ ( ( , ) )
4(det )
Z N H L
Z
2
11 2 2( ( , ) )] .Z N H L (27)
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We can introduce particle–hole excitations by removing
,i jJ from a Dirac sea for low-lying excitations and intro-
ducing ,i jJ outside the sea. In order not to change iM and
,iD in other words, the total number of quasiparticles and
the number of quasiparticles moved from the left Fermi
point to the right one in each Dirac sea for low-lying exci-
tations, the number of particles and holes for particle–hole
excitations should be equal both in the vicinity of the left
and right Fermi points. We characterize holes and particles
in the vicinity of iJ as , ,= ,i p i i pJ J n , ,=i h i i hJ J n
( =1, 2),i where the numbers , , > 0i p hn are half integers.
We then introduce total numbers as , ,= ( ),i i p i hn n n
where in are integers since , ,= .i p i hJ J
This description is modified when one considers finite
size corrections for a chain with an integrable impurity. Cal-
culations, similar to the above, yield ,imp ,i i where
2
2
1,imp 1 ,imp
=1
= ( )t
j j j j j
j
Z D d L
22 1 1,imp 12
1
[ ( ( , ) )
4(det )
Z N n H L
Z
2
21 2 2,imp 2( ( , ) )] ,Z N n H L
2
2
2,imp 1 ,imp
=1
= ( )t
j j j j j
j
Z D d L
12 1 1,imp 12
1
[ ( ( , ) )
4(det )
Z N n H L
Z
2
11 2 2,imp 2( ( , ) )] ,Z N n H L (28)
where 1,2,impn are related to the valence impn and the mag-
netization imp
zm of an impurity. For the supersymmetric
antiferromagnetic t-J chain we have imp 1,imp=1/2zm n
and imp 1,imp 2,imp= 2 ,n n n i.e., 1,imp imp= 2 zn m and
2,imp imp imp= ( /2) .zn n m As for j,imp ,d they define shifts
of the total momentum of a correlated electron chain caused
by an integrable impurity as
(1) (1)
,imp
1
= ( ) ( )
2
i
i i i
i
d dx x dx x
1
[ ( ) ( )] ,
4
i ix x (29)
where
1
1( ) = 2 tan [( )/ ]x x x S
2
(1)1
2,
2
2 tan [2( )] ( ) ,
h
dy x y y
1
(1)1
2 1,
1
( ) = 2 tan [2( )] ( )
h
x x dy x y y
12 tan [2( )/(2 1)]x S
2
(1)
2,2
2
1
2 ( )
1 ( )
h
dy y
x y
(30)
for periodic boundary conditions, where (1)
i satisfies
the equation for density of an impurity of order of 1.L
In the ground-state integral equations for densities of im-
purities are
2
1 1, 1 2, 2
2
( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) = ( ),h h Sp p d a p a p
2
2, 2 2 2,
2
( ) ( ) ( ) ( )h hd a
1
1 1, 2 1
1
( ) ( ) ( ).h Sdpa p p a (31)
We point out that the impurity introduces nonzero ground-
state momentum via ,imp.jd It implies that the studied
impurity has the properties of the “mobile” impurities [13].
The valence of an impurity (for = 0)H is
imp 1, 2,= ( ) 2 ( ),h hn dp p d (32)
which is equal to 2 2
imp 2 2= (2 1) /2 ( )n S for large
2 (we assumed that 2 | |), i.e., for low electron
density, and imp 2=1 ( )n O for small 2, i.e., for the
electron density close to half-filling. As a function of the
band filling the valence of an impurity smoothly varies
between 0 (for 0)N and 1 (for )N L ). The valence
is a decaying function of for fixed band filing: Larger
pertain to weaker coupling of an impurity to the host. The
valence is maximum for = 0, which is the resonance
situation (the impurity level is situated at the Fermi point
for the Dirac sea of pairs). The impurity valence also de-
creases as a function of S close to half-filling, and in-
creases for higher values of the impurity spin for small
total number of electrons in the system. The magnetization
of an impurity for = 0H is imp = 1/2.zm S
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For small 0H the valence of an impurity
for (1/2) | |S Q is imp 22 | |/ (2 1),n S
and for the opposite case 2(1/2) | |S it is
imp 2 2=1/2 (1/ )[ln2 | | (2 1)/2 | |],n S
where
2 2
2
2
= [2 ln 2 ( /4 )].
3 (3)
t H t
When switching on the magnetic field the valence of an im-
purity becomes smaller than unity even at half-filling, as the
manifestation of correlations between electrons in the host.
The ground-state magnetization comes from two ori-
gins, the magnetization arising from the valence admix-
ture, and the one due to spin degrees of freedom of an
impurity. The magnetic field is usually much smaller than
the band width, the former contribution is small (and lin-
ear in H), and can be neglected. Then the Fredholm equa-
tion, which describes only the “Kondo”-like spin excita-
tions is for 1
1, 1 1 1, 2 1( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) = ( ).h h Sp p dp G p p p G p
(33)
Then the Kondo temperature can be introduces as
1( ) = ln( / ),KH T and we obtain the solution for the
magnetization of an impurity
imp 2
ln | ln( / ) |1
= 1 ,
2 | ln( / ) | 4ln ( / )
z K
i
K K
H T
m
H T H T
(34)
where we use for KH T the lower sign and = ,i S
and for KH T we use the upper sign and = (1/2)i S
for > 1/2S , and = /i KH T for =1/2.S The impurity
spin is underscreened at low fields to the value 1/2S for
> 1/2,S while for = 1/2S it is totally screened with the
finite magnetic susceptibility (inverse proportional to the
“Kondo” temperature). For high enough values of the
magnetic field the impurity spin behaves as an asymptoti-
cally free spin S. The “Kondo” temperature depends on the
band filling via 1. If charge fluctuations are totally sup-
pressed, for = ,N L at the half-filling, the “Kondo” tem-
perature is 1= exp( | |),F
KT v where 1
Fv is the Fermi
velocity of spin-carrying excitations. The corrections due
to the mixed valence of an impurity shift the value of the
“Kondo” temperature, e.g., as
3
2(1 2 (3) )K KT T for
2 1, as the additional manifestation of correlations
between electrons in the host. At ,sH H in the spin-
saturation phase, the magnetization of an impurity is equal
to imp imp= ( 1)/2,zM S n where impn is the valence of
an impurity.
Naturally, the values ,impjm and ,impjd are defined
modulo 1. They determine shifts of the values =iM
= ( , )i iM L H and =i i i iD D L due to a single
impurity. It is important to emphasize that a dressed charge
matrix of a correlated electron chain with a single impurity
also does not depend on the parameters of the impurity.
Notice that for open boundary conditions finite-size
corrections can be obtained as above with the formal sub-
stitution 2L L with = = 0,i iD and with the contri-
bution from particle–hole excitations from only one of
Fermi edges, say .in In that case charge and spin persis-
tent currents are obviously zero, because the Aharonov–
Bohm–Casher phase factors (as well as the spin-orbit
one) can be removed from the Hamiltonian using a gauge
transformation [8,11].
5. Correlation functions
Let us now turn to the calculation of asymptotics of
correlation functions. Within the conformal field theory
they can be then written as ( =x ja where a is the lattice
constant)
2 2 ( )2 2 1
2 2
=1,2
e e
( , ) (0,0) ~ ,
( ) ( )
F FiD x i D D x
F Fj j
j j
j
x t
x i t x i tv v
(35)
where the Fermi momenta
( )
= ( /2 )[ ( 2 )].F L N N M
For small nonzero temperatures T one has to replace
the values ( )F
ix i tv by sinh[ ( )/ ]/F F F
i i iT x i t Tv v v
in Eq. (35). In the conformal field theory asymptotic of
correlation functions are determined up to the (constant)
multipliers (form factors), which do not depend on t and
x. It is clear from Eq. (35) that nonzero produces addi-
tional oscillating factor
exp( 2 [ ]) = exp( 2 [ 2 ]/ ),F Fi x i x N M L
which phase is proportional to the magnetic moment of the
system ( 2 )/2 .N M L
The lowest exponents for correlation functions can be
obtained for 1,2 = 0.n On the other hand, the numbers iD
due to BA equations are restricted to 1 2= /2D N mod 1
and 2 1 2= ( )/2D N N mod 1, where we introduced
1,2 1,2 1,2= ( , )N N H and use = 0.i
For the homogeneous supersymmetric t-J chain without
internal spin-orbit coupling we can use the following val-
ues (cf. Ref. 14) of quantum numbers 1,2 ,N 1,2 ,D and
1,2.n For the
†- correlation function we use 2 =1N
with half-integer 1D and 1 =1(0)N and integer (half-
integer) 2D for spin-up (down) states. For density-density
(or spin-spin )z z correlations we use 1,2 = 0N and in-
teger 1,2.D For spin-singlet (-triplet) pairs the choice is
1 =1(2),N 2 = 2N with integer 1D and half-integer
(integer) 2.D The role of the phase caused by the inter-
nal spin-orbit interaction is in the renormalization of 1D
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values, so that for the maximum value of the spin-orbit cou-
pling =1/4 the values of 1D are changed from integers to
half-integers and vice versa. On the other hand, the magnetic
impurity changes in general all values iN and iD due to
nonzero in and .id
In the general case 0H and non-half-filled band all
components of the dressed charge matrix are nonzero, as
well as ,impin and ,imp .id Let us consider two limiting
cases, at which some analytic results can be obtained.
First, consider the situation with = 0,H at which we
have 11 =1 2,Z 12 = 0Z and 22 21 2= 2 = ( ),cZ Z
where c is the solution of the following integral equation:
2
2
exp( ( ))
( ) = 1 ( ) .
2 1 exp(| |)
c c
dx ix
d
x
(36)
It is easy to see that 2( )c decays from the value 2 at
= 0N to 1 at = .N L It is convenient to introduce
2
2= 2 ( ),c c which decays from 4 to 2 with the growth
of the band filling from zero to half-filling. On the other
hand, we have 1,imp = 0n and 2,imp imp= /2n n (there are
no unbound electron excitations) with 1,imp4 =d
1 1( ) ( )x x for = 0.H For the equal-time correla-
tions in the ground state the decay of correlation func-
tions is proportional to
2[ ]
,c c s sx and at non-
zero temperatures the decay is proportional to
2
=1,2
( / ) exp( / ),F j j
j jj
T x Rv where we introdu-
ced the correlation radia = /[2 ( )].F
j j j jR Tv
We have for the homogeneous chain with the internal
spin-orbit coupling
†- correlation functions propor-
tional to
2[(1/ ) (1/4) [( /4) 1](1 2 ) /4]
cos( /2 ) .c cNx L x
It implies that the power-law singularity for kn is pro-
portional to
2[(1/ ) 3/4 [( /4) 1](1 2 ) /4]
| | .F c cP
For density-density correlation functions the main contri-
bution is proportional to
2( / ) ,N L and the next-to main
corrections are proportional to
2[( /4) 1](1 )
cos(2 / ) cNx L x
and
2[( /4) 1](1 )
cos( / ) cNx L x
or
2 2[( /4)(2 ) ]
cos( / ) ,cNx L x
depending on the band filling and the strength of the inter-
nal spin-orbit coupling. Notice that there can exist the
term, proportional to
2 22 ( /4)cx caused by possible
particle–hole excitations. For the spin-spin correlation
functions the asymptotics are similar without the constant
term. For the spin-singlet pair correlation function the main
asymptotic is proportional to
2 2[(4/ ) ( /4)(1 ) ]
cos( / ) .c cNx L x
Finally for the spin-triplet pair correlation function the
asymptotic is proportional to
2[1 (4/ ) [( /4) 1] ]
.c cx We
can see that the spin-orbit interaction, as a rule, can en-
hance field-field, spin-spin and density-density correlation
functions. On the other hand, pair correlation functions
decay stronger due to the spin-orbit coupling. It implies
that the spin-orbit interaction favors the charge density
wave or spin density wave quasi-ordering (the real order-
ing is excluded in one-dimensional systems at nonzero
temperatures).
At small nonzero temperatures the same exponents as in
the ground state determine the temperature dependences
and the correlation radii for the asymptotics of correlation
functions. For example, for the spin-triplet pair correlation
function the low-temperature asymptotics is given by
22[ ( )/ ] (4/ ) ( /4)11 2 1 2
1 2e ( / ) ( / ) ,
x R R R R F Ft t t t c cT Tv v
where
2
1 1= [ /2 (1 )]F
tR Tv
and
2
2 2= ( /2 [(4/ ) ( /4) ]).F
t c cR Tv
The presence of the magnetic impurity can strongly
renormalize the behavior of correlation function exponents
according to Eqs. (28). Here we point out that the
renornalization of the exponents due to the integrable im-
purity does not depend on the position of the impurity.
Such a property is caused by the reflectionless nature of
the integrable impurity. The manifestation of the latter is
seen in the nonzero momentum, caused by the impurity
(i.e., the influence of the impurity is spread along all the
chain without dissipation).
The other case, in which analytical answers can be ob-
tained, is the half-filling, 2 = 0. Here we have only one
Fermi sea for unbound electron excitations. This case for
the homogeneous situation is equivalent to the studied ear-
lier repulsive Hubbard chain with the internal spin-orbit
interaction at half-filling [9].
In a number of recent publications for correlated
spinless fermions [15] and for correlated electron models
[16] the conformal field theory result was corrected by
taking into account the curvature of the dispersion law of
low-energy excitations. Formally their corrections [15,16]
were related to the fictitious impurity, which description is
similar to the impurity, introduced in our model. The dif-
ference between our impurity and the fictitious one is in
the definition of and S. For our case is determined by
the impurity-host coupling. For the fictitious impurity in-
stead of the rapidity of the high-energy excitation is
introduced. (In such a case the fictitious impurity can have
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a nonzero momentum, i.e., it is similar to the “mobile”
one.) Then, it is easy to generalize our results for the non-
zero curvature of the low-energy excitation. It means, that
we have to add
,imp
( )
f
hi
n and
,imp
( )
f
hi
d together with
,imp ( )in and ,imp ( ),id where h defines the rapidity of
the high-energy excitation. They are related [15,16] to the
value of the dressed charge matrix , .i jZ For example,
111,imp
( ) =1 ( ),
f h
hn 212,imp
( ) = ( ).
f
h hn It is
important to emphasize that (i)
,imp
f
i
n and
,imp
f
i
d are also
determined modulo 1; (ii) critical exponents for correlation
functions are determined by the minimal choice of quan-
tum numbers iN and .iD
6. Conclusions
In summary, using the exact Bethe ansatz solution and
conformal field theory we have calculated the asymptotic
behavior of correlation functions for the supersymmetric
antiferromagnetic t-J chain with the internal spin-orbit inter-
action and with a magnetic impurity. We have shown that the
spin-orbit coupling strongly renormalizes critical exponents
for correlation functions even for the homogeneous case for
periodic boundary conditions. On the other hand, for open
chains the contribution of the spin-orbit interaction to correla-
tion functions is trivial. In particular, the spin-orbit coupling,
as a rule, causes the increase of critical exponents for pair-
pair correlation functions, while for spin-spin and density-
density correlations the critical exponents decrease with the
growth of the spin-orbit interactions. The magnetic impurity
also can play the decisive role in the behavior of correlation
functions, because it renormalizes critical exponents in the
way, similar to the contribution from curvatures of dispersion
laws of low-energy excitations of the correlated electron sys-
tem in the Luttinger liquid approach. This feature is the mani-
festation of the reflectionless nature of the integrable impuri-
ty. The nonzero momentum, caused by the impurity implies
that the influence of the impurity is spread along all the chain
without dissipation. Such a property of the impurity, together
with the highest entanglement of the antiferromagnetic
ground state of the considered model makes the latter as the
promising candidate for the application of similar systems in
quantum computation and spintronics.
Our findings are generic for one-dimensional correlated
electron systems with the internal spin-orbit coupling and
magnetic impurities, and can be used in studies of, e.g.,
semiconducting wires, where the spin-orbit interaction is
relatively large. In particular, the influence of such spin-
orbit effects can be very important for spintronics, e.g., in
spin-filtering current states. On the other hand, we have
shown that in general critical exponents depend on the va-
lence and the magnetic moment of the magnetic impurity.
The support from the Institute for Chemistry of the V.N.
Karasin Kharkov National University is acknowledged.
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