Dimensional Crossover in Quantum Antiferromagnets

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1996-08-26

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9608124v1

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4446 (1996).

Physics

Condensed Matter

RevTeX, 4 pages, 1 embedded postscript figure

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.77.4446

The dimensional crossover in a spin-$S$ nearest neighbor Heisenberg antiferromagnet is discussed as it is tuned from a two-dimensional square lattice, of lattice spacing $a$, towards a spin chain by varying the width $L_y$ of a semi-infinite strip $L_x\times L_y$. For integer spins and arbitrary $L_y$, and for half integer spins with $L_y/a$ an arbitrary even integer, explicit analytical expressions for the zero temperature correlation length and the spin gap are given. For half integer spins and $L_y/a$ an odd inetger, it is shown that the $c=1$ behavior of the $SU(2)_1$ WZW fixed point is squeezed out as the width $L_y\to \infty$; here $c$ is the conformal charge. The results specialized to $S=1/2$ are relevant to spin-ladder systems.

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