The spin-one Heisenberg-biquadratic quantum spin chain treated by the coupled-cluster method

The coupled-cluster method is used to obtain the ground-state energy of the isotropic Heisenberg-biquadratic quantum spin-one chain as a function of the ratio of the magnitudes of the two terms in the Hamiltonian. Two different model states are used which are expected to be valid in different regimes. In both cases we use simple approximation schemes to obtain numerical results for the ground-state energy which are compared with results of exact diagonalizations of short chains. For both cases we are able to incorporate some of the long-range correlations explicitly, using the so-called full-SUB2 approximation schemes, and this leads to evidence of phase changes at certain points. These are discussed in the light of known and conjectured phase transitions in this system.