Introduction to the Thermodynamics of Spin Chains

1992/12/21 by Luca Mezincescu, Mezincescu, Luca, Rafael I. Nepomechie +1
Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Condensed Matter (cond-mat) #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Magnetism in coordination complexes #Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism #Quantum and electron transport phenomena #cond-mat #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9212124

24 pages (1 figure not included, but available on request) (To appear in the Proceedings of the NSERC-CAP Workshop on Quantum Groups, Integrable Models and Statistical Systems, Kingston, Canada 13 -17 July 1992)

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Abstract

We review how to obtain the thermodynamic Bethe Ansatz (TBA) equations for the antiferromagnetic Heisenberg ring in an external magnetic field. We review how to solve these equations for low temperature and small field, and calculate the specific heat and magnetic susceptibility.

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