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A microscopic theory of magnetic order in strongly correlated quantum spin lattices

R. F. Bishop, DAMIAN J. J. FARNELL

Published Jan 1, 1998• 0 citations
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Abstract

Quantum spins arranged on regular geometrical lattices, and interacting through a wide diversity of specified model Hamiltonians, provide a rich variety of magnetically ordered phases with many subtle properties. The zero-temperature quantum phase transitions between states of different order can be explored by the variation of internal control parameters within the interaction Hamiltonian. We illustrate how the systematic inclusion of multi-spin correlations for such lattice systems may be efficiently and effectively implemented via the coupled cluster method (CCM), which has been widely demonstrated on many previous occasions to be one of the most versatile methods of microscopic quantum many-body theory. Its power is illustrated by application to the spin-½ anisotropic Heisenberg (or XXZ) model on an infinite square lattice. The results obtained for such properties as the ground-state energy and sublattice magnetization are found to be as accurate as those obtained by any available alternative method. We show also how the CCM can now provide accurate ab initio estimates for the critical values of the parameters which mark the positions of phase boundaries between states of different quantum order, as well as for the critical indices associated with the singular behaviour near these transition points of various physical quantities.

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