Formulation and numerical results of the transfer-matrix method for quantum spin chains

Thomas Delica and Hajo Leschke

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1990, vol. 168, issue 2, 736-767

Abstract: We give a novel and explicit description of the numerical transfer-matrix method for quantum spin chains in thermal equilibrium, based on a real-space Trotter decomposition of the corresponding statistical operator. We apply the method to a spin-12 chain with a magnetic field and varying anisotropy in the nearest-neighbor exchange interaction. Some of the results are compared with exact ones which are available in limiting cases.

Date: 1990
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DOI: 10.1016/0378-4371(90)90028-Q

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