Abstract
We investigate the low-temperature properties of the quantum Heisenberg models, both ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic, in one and two dimensions. We study two different large-N formulations, using Schwinger bosons and S=(1/2 fermions, and solve for their low-order thermodynamic properties. Comparison with exact solutions in one dimension demonstrates the applicability of this expansion to the physical models at N=2. For the square lattice, we find at the mean-field level a low-temperature correlation length which behaves as ξ∝exp(A/T), where A asymptotically approaches 2π for large spin S, but ≃1.16 and ≃5.46. We mention the relevance of our results to recent experiments in .
- Received 25 January 1988
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.38.316
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