Optimized resonating valence bond state in square lattice: correlations & excitations

Abstract

We consider RVB state as a variational estimate for the ground state of Heisenberg antiferromagnet in square lattice. We present numerical calculation of energy, spin-spin correlation function and spin excitation spectrum. We show, that the quantum flactuations reduce of magnetization respect to Neel order. Our results are in good agreement with other methods such as spin-wave calculation and series expansions.

Keywords

• resonating valence bound (RVB)
• antiferromagnetic
• Heisenbery model
• variational Monte Carol method
• square lattice