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Free energy asymptotics of the quantum Heisenberg spin chain

Mathematical Physics 2021-03-11 v2 Statistical Mechanics math.MP

Abstract

We consider the ferromagnetic quantum Heisenberg model in one dimension, for any spin S1/2S\geq 1/2. We give upper and lower bounds on the free energy, proving that at low temperature it is asymptotically equal to the one of an ideal Bose gas of magnons, as predicted by the spin-wave approximation. The trial state used in the upper bound yields an analogous estimate also in the case of two spatial dimensions, which is believed to be sharp at low temperature.

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@article{arxiv.1912.01967,
  title  = {Free energy asymptotics of the quantum Heisenberg spin chain},
  author = {Marcin Napiorkowski and Robert Seiringer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.01967},
  year   = {2021}
}

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LaTeX, 22 pages; revised version