Numerical Contractor Renormalization Method for Quantum Spin Models

Details Numerical Contractor Renormalization Method for Quantum Spin Models Numerical Contractor Renormalization Method for Quantum Spin Models

2004-04-29

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0404712v1

Phys. Rev. B 70, 104424 (2004)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

15 pages

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.70.104424

We demonstrate the utility of the numerical Contractor Renormalization (CORE) method for quantum spin systems by studying one and two dimensional model cases. Our approach consists of two steps: (i) building an effective Hamiltonian with longer ranged interactions using the CORE algorithm and (ii) solving this new model numerically on finite clusters by exact diagonalization. This approach, giving complementary information to analytical treatments of the CORE Hamiltonian, can be used as a semi-quantitative numerical method. For ladder type geometries, we explicitely check the accuracy of the effective models by increasing the range of the effective interactions. In two dimensions we consider the plaquette lattice and the kagome lattice as non-trivial test cases for the numerical CORE method. On the plaquette lattice we have an excellent description of the system in both the disordered and the ordered phases, thereby showing that the CORE method is able to resolve quantum phase transitions. On the kagome lattice we find that the previously proposed twofold degenerate S=1/2 basis can account for a large number of phenomena of the spin 1/2 kagome system. For spin 3/2 however this basis does not seem to be sufficient anymore. In general we are able to simulate system sizes which correspond to an 8x8 lattice for the plaquette lattice or a 48-site kagome lattice, which are beyond the possibilities of a standard exact diagonalization approach.

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