Prog. Theor. Phys. Vol. 75 No. 2 (1986) pp. 451-454

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Letters

A Direct Evaluation Method of the Partition Function of Quantum Spin Systems

Shinji Kadowaki^*) and Akira Ueda

Department of Applied Mathematics and Physics
Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606

(Received October 29, 1985)

Abstract:

A simple Monte Carlo method to evaluate the partition function of quantum spin systems is proposed. The method is applied to the isotropic spin-1/2 Heisenberg system of one-dimension and excellent agreements are obtained with the numerically rigorous result of Bonner and Fisher.

URL : http://ptp.ipap.jp/link?PTP/75/451/
DOI : 10.1143/PTP.75.451

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