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Plaquette expansion in lattice Hamiltonian models

Journal Article · · Physical Review, D (Particles Fields); (United States)
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  1. Research Centre for High Energy Physics, School of Physics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3052 (Australia)

The Lanczos method in operator form is applied to a general lattice Hamiltonian and expressions for the first few Lanczos matrices in terms of the connected Hamiltonian moments [l angle][ital H][sup [ital n]][r angle][sub [ital c]] and the number of plaquettes, [ital N][sub [ital p]], are obtained. Expansions in 1/[ital N][sub [ital p]] suggest a very simple general form for the first few terms in the 1/[ital N][sub [ital p]] expansions for all [alpha][sub [ital n]] and [beta][sub [ital n]]. For the one-dimensional Heisenberg spin chain it is demonstrated that the ground-state eigenvalue of the tridiagonal Lanczos matrix derived from this plaquette expansion approaches the true infinite lattice limit as the number of terms in the plaquette expansion is increased.

OSTI ID:
6993640
Journal Information:
Physical Review, D (Particles Fields); (United States), Journal Name: Physical Review, D (Particles Fields); (United States) Vol. 47:4; ISSN PRVDAQ; ISSN 0556-2821
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English