We start this article by recalling the main exact results previously obtained for describing the static magnetic properties of 2d square lattices composed of classical spins isotropically coupled between first-nearest neighbors (i.e., showing Heisenberg couplings) [4c]. Near the critical temperature TC= 0 K we give criterions allowing to directly determine the magnetic phases characterizing 2d magnetic compounds described by our microscopic model. We show that there are three distinct regimes: The Renormalized Classical Regime (RCR), the Quantum Disordered Regime (QDR) and the Quantum Critical Regime (QCR). The static properties give a good image of the spin arrangement and thus remain a good starting point for the study of dynamic properties. As a result, inside each of the three regimes, we may derive the corresponding dynamic behaviors. For practical reasons that we shall detail, we restrict our study to the RCR and QCR cases. An experimental test is given for illustrating this theoretical work. We notably show that it allows one to derive the static correlation length which is an important tool for understanding both static and dynamic properties.
We start this article by recalling the main exact results previously obtained for describing the static magnetic properties of 2d square lattices composed of classical spins isotropically coupled between first-nearest neighbors (i.e., showing Heisenberg couplings) [4c]. Near the critical temperature TC= 0 K we give criterions allowing to directly determine the magnetic phases characterizing 2d magnetic compounds described by our microscopic model. We show that there are three distinct regimes: The Renormalized Classical Regime (RCR), the Quantum Disordered Regime (QDR) and the Quantum Critical Regime (QCR). The static properties give a good image of the spin arrangement and thus remain a good starting point for the study of dynamic properties. As a result, inside each of the three regimes, we may derive the corresponding dynamic behaviors. For practical reasons that we shall detail, we restrict our study to the RCR and QCR cases. An experimental test is given for illustrating this theoretical work. We notably show that it allows one to derive the static correlation length which is an important tool for understanding both static and dynamic properties.
We start this article by recalling rigorous results previously obtained for 2d square lattices composed of (2N+1)2classical spins isotropically coupled between first-nearest neighbors (i.e., showing Heisenberg couplings), in the thermodynamic limit (N→+∞) [4]: (i) the zero-field partition function ZN(0), (ii) the spin correlation which vanishes in the zero-field limit, except at T=0 K so that the critical temperature is TC=0 K, in agreement with Mermin-Wagner's theorem, (iii) the spin-spin correlation between any two lattice sites, (iv) the correlation length and (v) the static susceptibility. We exclusively focus on the low-temperature behaviors of the correlation length and the static susceptibility. This leads to the determination of a diagram characterized by three magnetic phases. Moreover we show that all the behaviors are in perfect agreement with the corresponding ones derived by using a renormalization method. Finally we give criterions allowing to directly determine the magnetic phases characterizing 2d magnetic compounds described by our microscopic model. An experimental test is given for illustrating this theoretical study.
In this part labelled I we rigorously examine 2D square lattices composed of (2N+1)2classical spins isotropically coupled between first-nearest neighbors (i.e., showing Heisenberg cou-plings). Each local operator exp(-β Hi,jex) - where Hi,jexis the local exchange Hamiltonian associated with each site (i,j) - is expanded on the basis of spherical harmonics, each one being characterized by the couple of integers (ℓ,m), with ℓ≥0 and m∈[-ℓ,+ℓ]. Using spin lattice symmetries, we derive selection rules over these coefficients, thus allowing to express the zero-field partition function ZN(0). In the thermodynamic limit (N→∞), we show that the value m=0 is selected while ℓ=ℓ0≥0, ∀(i,j). A very simple closed-form expression may be then derived for ZN(0). Finally we report a thermal study of the current term of the characteristic polynomial giving ZN(0). We show that it appears crossovers between two consecutive terms characterized by integers ℓ and ℓ+1, respectively. Coming from high temperatures where the term characterized by ℓ=0 is dominant, near absolute zero, increasing ℓ-values are more and more selected when the temperature is cooling down. But, when T reaches zero, all the successive dominant terms become equivalent and are characterized by the value ℓ=0. We show that this property also prevails at T=0 K rigorously. This confirms the fact that, for a 2D lattice showing Heisenberg couplings, the critical temperature is TC=0 K, in agreement with Mermin-Wagner's theorem.
We rigorously examine 2d square lattices composed of Ninf{S} classical spins isotropically coupled. If Hsup{ex},inf{i,j} is the local exchange Hamiltonian each operator exp(-beta.Hsup{ex},inf{i,j}) is expanded on the basis of spherical harmonics Yinf{linf{ i,j }, minf{ i,j }}. We derive selection rules for the linf{ i,j}'s and minf{ i,j }'s. For infinite Ninf{S} the value m = 0 is selected. We obtain an exact l-polynomial for the zero-field partition function, valid for any temperature. Its thermal study allows to point out crossovers between the l-eigenvalues. Near Tinf{c} = 0 K we derive a diagram showing three magnetic phases, each one being characterized by the low-temperature behavior of the correlation length. At Tinf{c}= 0 K, we retrieve the critical exponent nu = 1. We identify three regimes: the renormalized classical, the quantum disordered and the quantum critical regimes. We exactly express the free energy density F. For each result we retrieve the corresponding one derived from the renormalization approach.
In this part labelled II we examine the spin correlations and the susceptibility. We use a similar method which has allowed to derive a closed-form expression of the zero-field partition function ZN(0), for 2D square lattices composed of (2N+1)2classical spins isotropically coupled [1]. We rigorously show that the spin correlation vanishes in the zero-field limit, except at T=0 K. Thus, the critical temperature is TC=0 K, in agreement with Mermin-Wagner's theorem. For calculating the spin-spin correlation, we show that it is necessary to distinguish a correlation domain in which the correlation path is confined and a wing domain (Theorem 1). In the thermodynamic limit (N→+∞), we give a general closed-form expression for the spin-spin correlation between any two lattice sites. We prove that all the possible paths have the same analytic expression and correspond to the shortest ones in agreement with the classical principle of least action and its quantum version (Theorem 2). As a result and for the first time, we derive the closed-form expression for the susceptibility, without any approximation. We finally test previous experimental fits and we show that the use of a truncated expansion for the susceptibility was totally justified.
We study scaling behavior in two-dimensional, square lattice, S=1/2 and S=1 Heisenberg antiferromagnets using the data on full q dependences of the equal-time structure factor and the static susceptibility, calculated through high-temperature series expansions. We also carry out comparisons with a model of two coupled S=1/2 Heisenberg planes with the interlayer exchange coupling tuned to the T=0 critical point (two-plane model hereafter). For both S=1/2 and S=1 models, we separately determine the spin-wave velocity c and mass m=c/\ensuremath{\xi}, in addition to the correlation length, \ensuremath{\xi}, and find that c is temperature dependent; only for temperatures below T\ensuremath{\lesssim}JS, where J is the exchange coupling, c approaches its known T=0 values, c0. This nonuniversal lattice effect is caused by the quantum nature of spin, and is therefore not captured by the quantum nonlinear \ensuremath{\sigma} model.Despite this temperature dependence of the spin-wave velocity, full q and \ensuremath{\omega} dependences of the dynamical susceptibility \ensuremath{\chi}(q,\ensuremath{\omega}) agree with those of the universal scaling function, computable for the \ensuremath{\sigma} model, for temperatures up to T0\ensuremath{\sim}0.6c0/a, and their further analysis leads us to the inference that below T0 the S=1 model is in the renormalized classical (RC) regime, the two-plane model is in the quantum critical (QC) regime in agreement with earlier work, and the S=1/2 model exhibits a RC-QC crossover, centered around crossover and for the two-plane model at all T=0.55J. In particular, for the S=1/2 model above the RC-QC temperatures where calculated, the obtained spin-wave mass m=c/\ensuremath{\xi} is in excellent agreement with the known universal QC prediction, m\ensuremath{\simeq}1.04T. In contrast, for the S=1/2 model below the RC-QC crossover, and for the S=1 model at all temperatures, the behavior agrees with the exact RC expression. for all three models, nonuniversal behavior occurs above T\ensuremath{\sim}0.6c0/a. Our results strongly support the conjecture by Chubukov and Sachdev that the S=1/2 model is close enough to the T=0 critical point to exhibit QC behavior at intermediate temperatures.
The critical behavior of 2D magnetic easy-plane systems has mainly been studied by the classical XY model. However, the z components of the spins have to be considered in order to describe real systems, and their fluctuations cannot positively be neglected when quantum effects are to be included, quantum spins being intrinsically three-component objects. Therefore, Monte Carlo simulations are performed for the Heisenberg ferromagnet with easy-plane anisotropy (XXZ model) on a two-dimensional square lattice with a twofold aim: first, to obtain accurate quantitative results about the critical behavior of the classical model, showing the relevant role played by the out-of-plane fluctuations; second, to open the way for approaching the quantum thermodynamics by means of the effective Hamiltonian method that reduces the quantum thermodynamics of the XXZ ferromagnet to the investigation of an effective classical model with temperature-dependent renormalized interaction parameters. Specific heat, magnetic susceptibility, and correlation length are calculated in the critical region for lattice sizes up to 128×128. These quantities preserve the Kosterlitz–Thouless behavior of the XY model. For the transition temperature of the classical XX0 model we obtain the estimate kBTc/(JS̃2)=0.69±0.01.