18 research outputs found
Dynamics of coupled quantum spin chains
Static and dynamical properties of weakly coupled antiferromagnetic spin
chains are treated using a mean--field approximation for the interchain
coupling and exact results for the resulting effective one--dimensional
problem. Results for staggered magnetization, N\'eel temperature and spin wave
excitations are in agreement with experiments on . The existence of
a narrow longitudinal mode is predicted. The results are in agreement with
general scaling arguments, contrary to spin wave theory.Comment: 12 pages, 1 figure, RevTeX 3.0, uuencoded file, some refs adde
Weakly Coupled Antiferromagnetic Quantum Spin Chains
Quasi-one-dimensional quantum antiferromagnets formed by a d-dimensional
hypercubic lattice of weakly coupled spin-1/2 antiferromagnetic Heisenberg
chains are studied by combining exact results in one-dimension and
renormalization group analyses of the interchain correlations. It is shown that
d-dimensional magnetic long-range order develops at zero-temperature for
infinitesimal antiferromagnetic or ferromagnetic interchain couplings. In the
presence of weak bond alternations, the order-disorder transition occurs at a
finite interchain coupling. Relevances to the lightly doped quantum
antiferromagnets and multi-layer quantum Hall systems are discussed.Comment: 12 revtex pages, no figures, revised final version to appear in PR