Resonating valence bond wavefunctions and classical interacting dimer models

Details Resonating valence bond wavefunctions and classical interacting dimer models Resonating valence bond wavefunctions and classical interacting dimer models

2011-12-21

arxiv.org/abs/1112.4917v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

4+ pages, 2-column format, 1 figure

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We relate properties of nearest-neighbour resonating valence bond (nnRVB) wavefunctions for $SU(g)$ spin systems on two dimensional bipartite lattices to those of fully-packed classical dimer models with potential energy $V$ on the same lattice. We define a cluster expansion of $V$ in terms of $n$-body potentials $V_n$, which are recursively determined from the nnRVB wavefunction on {\em finite subgraphs} of the original lattice. The magnitude of the $n$-body interaction $V_n$ ($n>1$) is of order ${\mathcal O}(g^{-(n-1)})$ for small $g^{-1}$, while $V_1$ reduces to a constant due to the fully-packed nature of the model. At leading non-trivial order on the square lattice, the interacting dimer model only has two-body interactions $V_2(g)$ that favour two parallel dimers on elementary plaquettes. Setting $g=2$ and using the results of earlier work on this interacting dimer model, we find that the long-distance behaviour of the bond-energy correlation function is dominated by an oscillatory term that decays as $ 1/|\vec{r}|^{\alpha}$ with $\alpha \approx 1.22$ for SU(2) spins. This result is in remarkable quantitative agreement with earlier direct numerical studies of the corresponding wavefunction, which give $\alpha \approx 1.20$.

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