Magnetic properties of doped Heisenberg chains Original Research Article

The magnetic susceptibility of systems from a class of integrable models for doped spin-S Heisenberg chains is calculated in the limit of vanishing magnetic field. For small concentrations xh of the mobile spin-(S−1/2) charge carriers we find an explicit expression for the contribution of the gapless mode associated to the magnetic degrees of freedom of these holes to the susceptibility which exhibits a singularity for xh→0 for sufficiently large S. We prove a sum rule for the contributions of the two gapless magnetic modes in the system to the susceptibility which holds for arbitrary hole concentration. This sum rule complements the one for the low temperature specific heat which has been obtained previously.