A plane of weakly coupled Heisenberg chains: theoretical arguments and numerical calculations

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/27/22/009zbMATH Open0850.82008arXivcond-mat/9408062OpenAlexW2094705556MaRDI QIDQ4874913FDOQ4874913

Authors: Ian Affleck, Martin P. Gelfand, Rajiv R. P. Singh 

Publication date: 11 June 1996

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The $S=1/2$, nearest-neighbor, quantum Heisenberg antiferromagnet on the square lattice with spatially anisotropic couplings is reconsidered, with particular attention to the following question: at T=0, does N'eel orderdevelop at infinitesimal interchain coupling, or is there a nonzero critical coupling? A heuristic renormalization group argument is presented which suggests that previous theoretical answers to that question are incorrect or at least incomplete, and that the answer is not universal but rather depends on the microscopic details of the model under consideration. Numerical investigations of the nearest-neighbor model are carried out {it via} zero-temperature series expansions about Ising and dimer Hamiltonians. The results are entirely consistent with a vanishing critical interchain coupling ratio $R_c$; if $R_c$ is finite, it is unlikely to substantially exceed 0.02.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9408062

zbMATH Keywords

renormalization-groupnumerical investigationsquantum Heisenberg antiferromagnetsquare lattice with spatially anisotropic couplings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20) Renormalization group methods in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B28)

Cited In (2)

• Square-lattice \(s=1/2 XY\) model and the Jordan-Wigner fermions: The ground-state and thermodynamic properties
• Critical phenomena and quantum phase transition in long range Heisenberg antiferromagnetic chains

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