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Ivan Spremo

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Effective spin-wave action for ordered Heisenberg antiferromagnets in a magnetic field

We derive the effective long-wavelength Euclidean action for the antiferromagnetic spin-waves of ordered quantum antiferromagnets subject to a uniform magnetic field. We point out that the magnetic field dependence of the spin-wave dispersion predicted by the usual O(3)-quantum nonlinear sigma model disagrees with spin-wave theory. We argue that the nonlinear sigma model does not take into account all relevant spin-wave interactions and derive a modified effective action for the long-wavelength spin-waves which contains an additional quartic interaction. At zero temperature the corresponding vertex is relevant in the renormalization group sense below three dimensions.

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Magnetic properties of a metal-organic antiferromagnet on a distorted honeycomb lattice

For temperatures T well above the ordering temperature T*=3.0+-0.2K the magnetic properties of the metal-organic material Mn[C10H6(OH)(COO)]2x2H20 built from Mn^2+ ions and 3-hydroxy-2-naphthoic anions can be described by a S=5/2 quantum antiferromagnet on a distorted honeycomb lattice with two different nearest neighbor exchange couplings J2 \approx 2J1 \approx 1.8K. Measurements of the magnetization M(H,T) as a function of a uniform external field H and of the uniform zero field susceptibility χ(T) are explained within the framework of a modified spin-wave approach which takes into account the absence of a spontaneous staggered magnetization at finite temperatures.

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Spin-wave theory at constant order parameter

We derive the low-temperature properties of spin-S quantum Heisenberg magnets from the Gibbs free energy G(M) for fixed order parameter M. Assuming that the low-lying elementary excitations of the system are renormalized spin waves, we show that a straightforward 1/S expansion of G(M) yields qualitatively correct results for the low-temperature thermodynamics, even in the absence of long-range magnetic order. We explicitly calculate the two-loop correction to the susceptibility of the ferromagnetic Heisenberg chain and show that it quantitatively modifies the mean-field result.

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