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Fractional and Integer Excitations in Quantum Antiferromagnetic Spin 1/2 Ladders

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2009-11-07 v2 Superconductivity

Abstract

Spectral densities are computed in unprecedented detail for quantum antiferromagnetic spin 1/2 two-leg ladders. These results were obtained due to a major methodical advance achieved by optimally chosen unitary transformations. The approach is based on dressed integer excitations. Considerable weight is found at high energies in the two-particle sector. Precursors of fractional spinon physics occur implying that there is no necessity to resort to fractional excitations in order to describe features at higher energies.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0106077,
  title  = {Fractional and Integer Excitations in Quantum Antiferromagnetic Spin 1/2 Ladders},
  author = {C. Knetter and K. P. Schmidt and M. Grüninger and G. S. Uhrig},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0106077},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

6 pages, 4 figures included, minor text changes, improved figures

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