Thermodynamics of frustrated quantum spin chains

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作者
Maisinger, K [1 ]
Schollwock, U [1 ]
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[1] Univ Munich, Sekt Phys, D-80333 Munich, Germany
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.445
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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We apply the transfer-matrix density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) approach to frustrated quantum spin chains, down to T = 0.025 K in the thermodynamic limit. The incommensurability problem of exact diagonalization and the negative sign problem of quantum Monte Carlo vanish completely. For illustration, we give results for chains with next-nearest-neighbor frustration and for the delta chain, which has been a testbed for many thermodynamic methods. The DMRG approach proves to be an extremely powerful method for the old problem of the thermodynamics of frustrated systems.
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