Effective actions for spin ladders

Details Effective actions for spin ladders Effective actions for spin ladders

1996-10-18

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9610148v3

Phys.Rev.Lett.78:2457,1997

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

Final version, as published in Phys. Rev. Lett

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.78.2457

We derive a path-integral expression for the effective action in the continuum limit of an AFM Heisenberg spin ladder with an arbitrary number of legs. The map is onto an $O(3)$ nonlinear $\sigma$-model (NL$\sigma$M) with the addition of a topological term that is effective only for odd-legged ladders and half-odd integer spins. We derive the parameters of the effective NL$\sigma$M and the behaviour of the spin gap for the case of even-legged ladders.

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