We present analytic weak-coupling and numerical finite-chain results for the specific heat, the longitudinal zero-field susceptibility, and the longitudinal dynamic form factor of the planar ferromagnetic xxz chain at finite temperatures. It is shown that the "bound state" probed by the dynamic form factor ${S}_{\mathrm{zz}}(q,\ensuremath{\omega})$ within the Hartree-Fock approximation has to be interpreted as the first moment of Szz of the states lying above the continuum appearing in the isotropic xy model.
Finite-temperature spin dynamics in the planar $t\ensuremath{-}J$ model are studied using a method based on the Lanczos diagonalization of small systems. The dynamical spin structure factor at moderate dopings shows the coexistence of free-fermion-like and spin-fluctuation time scales. At T<J, low-frequency and static susceptibilities show a pronounced T dependence, supporting a scenario related to the marginal Fermi liquid one, for the explanation of neutron-scattering and NMR relaxation experiments in cuprates. Calculated NMR relaxation rates reasonably reproduce experimental ones.
Recent results for the finite-temperature static and dynamical properties of the planar t−J model, obtained by a novel numerical method for small correlated systems, are reviewed. Of particular interest are T>0 charge and spin response functions: optical conductivity σ(ω) and spin susceptibility χ(q,ω), which show very universal features at intermediate doping. In spin dynamics the universality is best seen in the local spin correlation function, which appears to be T-independent and only weakly doping dependent. Results apply directly to the inelastic neutron scattering and to the NMR relaxation experiments in cuprates. Analysing σ(ω) we find that the current correlation function C(ω) is nearly T- and moreover ω-independent in the regime $T