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S matrix from matrix product states

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2014-07-09 v2 Quantum Physics

Abstract

We use the matrix product state formalism to construct stationary scattering states of elementary excitations in generic one-dimensional quantum lattice systems. Our method is applied to the spin-1 Heisenberg antiferromagnet, for which we calculate the full magnon-magnon S matrix for arbitrary momenta and spin, the two-particle contribution to the spectral function and the magnetization curve. As our method provides an accurate microscopic representation of the interaction between elementary excitations, we envisage the description of low-energy dynamics of one-dimensional spin chains in terms of these particlelike excitations.

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@article{arxiv.1312.6793,
  title  = {S matrix from matrix product states},
  author = {Laurens Vanderstraeten and Jutho Haegeman and Tobias J. Osborne and Frank Verstraete},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1312.6793},
  year   = {2014}
}

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Improved version, extra supplemental material

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