Frustration-induced eta inversion in the S=1/2 bond-alternating spin chain

Phys Rev Lett. 2004 Sep 17;93(12):127203. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.127203. Epub 2004 Sep 15.

Abstract

We study the frustration-induced enhancement of the incommensurate correlation for a bond-alternating quantum spin chain in a magnetic field, which is associated with a quasi-one-dimensional organic compound F5PNN. We investigate the temperature dependence of the staggered susceptibilities by using the density matrix renormalization group, and then find that the incommensurate correlation becomes dominant in a certain range of the magnetic field. We also discuss the mechanism of this enhancement on the basis of the mapping to the effective S=1/2 XXZ chain and a possibility of the field-induced incommensurate long-range order.