Monte Carlo simulation of the ‘‘Kondo necklace’’
Richard T. Scalettar, Douglas J. Scalapino, Robert L. Sugar
The projector Monte Carlo method and finite-size scaling are applied to the solution of the ground-state properties of the ``Kondo necklace'' Hamiltonian. The energy and various spin-spin correlation functions are calculated for chains up to 16 sites in length. Correlations between the spins on different sites are evaluated, and the nature of the ground-state phase as a function of the ratio of the exchange coupling J to the bandwidth W is examined. Evaluation of the correlation function 〈S\ensuremath{\rightarrow}(i)\ensuremath{\cdot}\ensuremath{\tau}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}(i)〉 shows that as the coupling between the localized S spins and the \ensuremath{\tau} spin chain increases, the system becomes composed of independent singlets on each site. Contrary to both mean-field and various approximate renormalization-group calculations, we find that our results are consistent with an absence of magnetic order as soon as J is different from 0.
Physical review. B, Condensed matter•Jun 1, 1985•45 citations