Reconciling field-theoretical and semiclassical approaches to quantum 2D antiferromagnets
Academic Article
Publication Date:
2004
abstract:
We show that, starting from the field-theoretical expression for the correlation length ? of the 2D quantum Heisenberg antiferromagnet corrected for cut-off effects and our knowledge of the classical thermodynamics of the model, the observed temperature dependence of ? can be reproduced. We find also that the cut-off effects contains the same pure-quantum renormalizations of the pure-quantum self-consistent harmonic approximation semiclassical framework: the gap between quantum field theoretical and semiclassical results is thus bridged.
Iris type:
01.01 Articolo in rivista
Keywords:
2D antiferromagnet; Non-linear sigma model; Effective Hamiltonian; Field theory
List of contributors:
Vaia, Ruggero; Verrucchi, Paola
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