ELEMENTARY EXCITATIONS FOR THE 2-DIMENSIONAL QUANTUM HEISENBERG-ANTIFERROMAGNET

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作者
CHEN, GH
DING, HQ
GODDARD, WA
机构
[1] Materials Simulation Center, Beckman Institute, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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PHYSICAL REVIEW B | 1992年 / 46卷 / 05期
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10.1103/PhysRevB.46.2933
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T [工业技术];
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08 ;
摘要
The excitation spectrum of the antiferromagnetic spin-1/2 Heisenberg Hamiltonian H = SIGMA-JS(i).S(j) on L X L lattices is evaluated by a projector quantum Monte Carlo method. These results suggest that the exact spectrum for the finite lattice is omega-k congruent-to Z(L)omega(k)SW, for all k, where omega(k)SW=4JS square-root 1-gamma(k)2 with gamma-k = (cosk(x)+cosk(y))/2 is from linear-spin-wave theory. We find Z(L)=Z(E)+B/L3, leading to Z(E) = 1.21+/-0.03 for L = infinity. A comparison with experiments on La2CuO4 is discussed.
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页码:2933 / 2938
页数:6
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