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The Antiferromagnetic Correlations in the Half—Filled Double—Exchange Model at Finite Temperature
JIAn-Chun, WANGJing
Abstract
We extend a previous result of ours [G.S. Tian, Phys. Rev. B63 (2001) 224413] on the antiferromagneticspin correlations in the half-filled Hubbard model at finite temperature to the double-exchange model. To overcome themathematical difficulty caused by the S = 3/2 localized spin freedom in this model, we apply both Zener's argumentand the finite-temperature spin-reflection-positivity method to show rigorously that, at any temperature T, the spincorrelations in the half-filled double-exchange model are predominantly antiferromagnetic. This conclusion is completelyconsistent with the experimental observations and the previous theoretical results by approximate methods.