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Revisiting the Exact Dynamical Structure Factor of the Heisenberg Antiferromagnetic Model

Statistical Mechanics 2025-05-13 v2 Materials Science Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We revisit our initial derivations of the exact 2-spinon S2S_2 and 4-spinon S4S_4 dynamical structure factors (DSF). First we show that the latter derivations had normalization factors that are twice and quadriple the correct ones respectively. This means that S2S_2 contributes not 72% as was previously thought but 36% to the total DSF. We also calculated the contribution of S4S_4 to be between 18% and 20% and not 27% as was calculated by Caux and Hagemans. In fact we show that the latter reference had also the normalization factor twice the correct value and had it done the numeric integrations correctly it would have obtained a contribution between 36% and 40% for S4S_4. Furthermore, we prove that its claim that our initial derivation of S4S_4 was also incorrect in its dependency on the spectral parameters is incorrect because fixing the momentun transfer kk up to 2π2\pi as the latter reference did to justify its claim only amounts to mutltiplying the overall factor by 2 because as we will prove in this paper S4S_4 is periodic in kk with period 2π2\pi. Also in this paper we derive SnS_n for general nn by following a different approach compared to our initial derivation of S4S_4. Although for S4S_4 both the new derivation and the initial one lead to equivalent formulas that are expressed differently, the new form presented in this paper is much more elegant and compact and also reveals new hidden and nontrivial symmetries which substantially simplify the numeric evaluation of S4S_4 and its sum rules. Moreover based on the results of this paper we propose a simple approximation to the total DSF of the Heisenberg model. Finally we comment on how our work might resolve the discrepancy between the exact theoretic results and experiemntal data as reported by Zaliznyak et al.

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@article{arxiv.1402.3855,
  title  = {Revisiting the Exact Dynamical Structure Factor of the Heisenberg Antiferromagnetic Model},
  author = {A. H. Bougourzi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1402.3855},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

Need more study and confirmation of the results