Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2007-01-18
J. Phys. A 40 (2007) 4439-4453
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
19 pages, Latex, 3 figures; v2 minor corrections, a reference updated, v3 typos in the text and in eq. (54) corrected
Scientific paper
10.1088/1751-8113/40/17/002
We derive a multiple integral representing the ground state density matrix of a segment of length $m$ of the XXZ spin chain on $L$ lattice sites, which depends on $L$ only parametrically. This allows us to treat chains of arbitrary finite length. Specializing to the isotropic limit of the XXX chain we show for small $m$ that the multiple integrals factorize. We conjecture that this property holds for arbitrary $m$ and suggest an exponential formula for the density matrix which involves only a double Cauchy type integral in the exponent. We demonstrate the efficiency of our formula by computing the next-to-nearest neighbour $zz$-correlation function for chain lengths ranging from two to macroscopic numbers.
Damerau Jens
Göhmann Frank
Hasenclever Nils P.
Klümper Andreas
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