We report a neutron scattering study of the instantaneous spin correlations in the two-dimensional spin S=5/2 square-lattice Heisenberg antiferromagnet Rb_2MnF_4. The measured correlation lengths are quantitatively described, with no adjustable parameters, by high-temperature series expansion results and by a theory based on the quantum self-consistent harmonic approximation. Conversely, we find that the data, which cover the range from about 1 to 50 lattice constants, are outside of the regime corresponding to renormalized classical behavior of the quantum non-linear sigma model. In addition, we observe a crossover from Heisenberg to Ising critical behavior near the Neel temperature; this crossover is well described by a mean-field model with no adjustable parameters.
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9804293,
title = {Spin Correlations in the Two-Dimensional Spin-5/2 Heisenberg Antiferromagnet Rb2MnF4},
author = {Y. S. Lee and M. Greven and B. O. Wells and R. J. Birgeneau and G. Shirane},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9804293},
year = {2009}
}
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8 pages, LaTeX, with 6 included EPS figures, submitted to EPJ B