Abstract
Antiferromagnetic Heisenberg spin chains with various spin values (S = 1/2, 1,3/2, 2, 5/2) are studied numerically with the quantum Monte-Carlo method. Effective spin S chains are realized by ferromagnetically coupling n = 2S antiferromagnetic spin chains with S = 1/2. The temperature dependence of the uniform susceptibility, the staggered susceptibility, and the static structure factor peak intensity are computed down to very low temperatures, T/J ≈ 0.01. The correlation length at each temperature is deduced from numerical measurements of the instantaneous spin-spin correlation function. At high temperatures, very good agreement with exact results for the classical spin chain is obtained independent of the value of S. For the S = 2 chain which has a gap Δ, the correlation length and the uniform susceptibility in the temperature range Δ < T < J are well predicted by the semi-classical theory of Damle and Sachdev.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 291-297 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | European Physical Journal B |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1998 |
Keywords
- 75.10.Jm Quantized spin models
- 75.40.Cx Static properties (order parameter, static susceptibility, heat capacities, critical exponents, etc.)
- 75.40.Mg Numerical simulation studies