Physics – Condensed Matter – Strongly Correlated Electrons
Scientific paper
2009-09-28
Phys.Rev.B81:014416,2010
Physics
Condensed Matter
Strongly Correlated Electrons
36 pages, 3 figures
Scientific paper
Within the framework of effective Lagrangians we calculate the free energy density for an O($N$) antiferromagnet in 2+1 dimensions up to three-loop order in the perturbative expansion and derive the low-temperature series for various thermodynamic quantities. In particular, we show that the magnon-magnon interaction in the O(3) antiferromagnet in $d$=2+1 -- the O(3)-invariant quantum Heisenberg antiferromagnet on a square or a honeycomb lattice -- is very weak and repulsive and manifests itself through a term proportional to five powers of the temperature in the free energy density. Remarkably, the corresponding coefficient is fully determined by the leading-order effective Lagrangian ${\cal L}^2_{eff}$ and does not involve any higher order effective constants from ${\cal L}^4_{eff}$ related to the anisotropies of the lattice -- the symmetries are thus very restrictive in $d$=2+1. We also compare our results that apply to O($N$) antiferromagnets in 2+1 dimensions with the those for O($N$) antiferromagnets in 3+1 dimensions. The present work demonstrates the efficiency of the fully systematic effective Lagrangian method in the condensed matter domain, which clearly proves to be superior to spin-wave theory. We would like to emphasize that the structure of the low-temperature series derived in the present work is model-independent and universal as it only relies on symmetry considerations.
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