Physical review. B, Condensed matter
Plaquette expansion of the two-dimensional antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model
Michael J. Tomlinson, Lloyd C. L. Hollenberg
Abstract
The plaquette expansion of the Lanczos recursion method is applied to the two-dimensional antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model. Connected Hamiltonian moments 〈${\mathit{H}}^{\mathit{n}}$${\mathrm{〉}}_{\mathit{c}}$ are calculated with respect to the N\'eel state up to n=6. The subsequent plaquette expansion of the Lanczos matrix in the number of plaquettes on the lattice, ${\mathit{N}}_{\mathit{p}}$, is determined to order 1/${\mathit{N}}_{\mathit{p}}$. Diagonalizing the Lanczos matrix in this form gives a value of the energy density of -0.664 in the limit ${\mathit{N}}_{\mathit{p}}$\ensuremath{\rightarrow}\ensuremath{\infty}, in good agreement with existing calculations.