Year: 2015
Type: article
Abstract: Using a variational ansatz based on matrix product states, the authors present a methodology for determine the elementary excitations and their low energy scattering matrices of general quasi-one-dimensional spin systems. From these scattering matrices, the authors map the system unto an effective integrable model and then employ the thermodynamic Bethe ansatz so as to determine thermodynamic properties of the spin system. As a demonstration of the method, the authors apply it to a Heisenberg spin ladder.
Source: Physical Review B
Language: English
Topic: Quantum many-body systems
Subfield: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2124499918