Can Majorana Fermions correctly describe the ordered state of an antiferromagnetic Heisenberg chain?
Abstract
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To check the reliability of the Majorana representation of quantum spin systems, we use it to compute the ground state energy of an antiferromagnetic spin 1/2 chain to one loop order. We find a very small one loop correction of the mean field energy and a discrepancy of >100% compared to the Bethe Ansatz result. We conclude that a careful handling of the gauge degrees of freedom of this representation is crucial to get correct results.
6 pages, Revtex, no figures
6 pages, Revtex, no figures