# Phase Diagram of the 2-Leg Heisenberg Ladder with Alternating Dimerization

## Figure Captions

Fig.1 a) A 2-leg ladder with alternating dimerized couplings $`J(1\pm \gamma )`$ along the horizontal legs and $`J^{}`$ along the vertical rungs. b) A maximally dimerized ladder with $`\gamma =1`$. c) A uniform 1D-Heisenberg chain emerging from the “snake” pattern when $`\gamma =1`$ and $`J^{}/J=2`$.

Fig.2 A 3D-plot of the surface of gaps $`\mathrm{\Delta }(\gamma ,J^{}/J)_L`$, for $`L=10`$, in the two-dimensional parameter space of couplings showing the existence of a steep valley which we associate to the critical curve in the phase diagram.

Fig.3 Phase diagram resulting from the analysis of the Lanczos results. The circles denote the extrapolated numerical results. The solid curve is the function $`2\gamma ^{2/3}`$ (explained in the text) which fits those circles quite well. RVB and Dimer phases are separated by this line. The dashed line corresponds to the perturbation result given in eq.(3), while the dotted-dashed line corresponds to the NLSM result given in eq.(5).