Some formal results for the valence bond basis

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2006.05.032zbMATH Open1215.82004arXivcond-mat/0605103OpenAlexW2000541921MaRDI QIDQ879893FDOQ879893

Authors: K. S. D. Beach, Anders W. Sandvik 

Publication date: 10 May 2007

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In a system with an even number of SU(2) spins, there is an overcomplete set of states--consisting of all possible pairings of the spins into valence bonds--that spans the S=0 Hilbert subspace. Operator expectation values in this basis are related to the properties of the closed loops that are formed by the overlap of valence bond states. We construct a generating function for spin correlation functions of arbitrary order and show that all nonvanishing contributions arise from configurations that are topologically irreducible. We derive explicit formulas for the correlation functions at second, fourth, and sixth order. We then extend the valence bond basis to include triplet bonds and discuss how to compute properties that are related to operators acting outside the singlet sector. These results are relevant to analytical calculations and to numerical valence bond simulations using quantum Monte Carlo, variational wavefunctions, or exact diagonalization.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0605103

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zbMATH Keywords

quantum spin systemsHeisenberg modelvalence bonds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20) Quantum equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B10)

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