Eur. Phys. J. B (2017) 90: 242
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2017-80459-x

Regular Article

Monte Carlo determination of the low-energy constants for a two-dimensional spin-1 Heisenberg model with spatial anisotropy

Department of Physics, National Taiwan Normal University, 88, Sec.4, Ting-Chou Rd., Taipei 116, Taiwan

^a e-mail: fjjiang@ntnu.edu.tw

Received: 6 August 2017
Received in final form: 10 October 2017
Published online: 11 December 2017

Abstract

The low-energy constants, namely the spin stiffness ρ_s, the staggered magnetization density ℳ_s per area, and the spinwave velocity c of the two-dimensional (2D) spin-1 Heisenberg model on the square and rectangular lattices are determined using the first principles Monte Carlo method. In particular, the studied models have different antiferromagnetic couplings J₁ and J₂ in the spatial 1- and 2-directions, respectively. For each considered J₂∕J₁, the aspect ratio of the corresponding linear box sizes L₂∕L₁ used in the simulations is adjusted so that the squares of the two spatial winding numbers take the same values. In addition, the relevant finite-volume and -temperature predictions from magnon chiral perturbation theory are employed in extracting the numerical values of these low-energy constants. Our results of ρ_s1 are in quantitative agreement with those obtained by the series expansion method over a broad range of J₂∕J₁. This in turn provides convincing numerical evidence for the quantitative correctness of our approach. The ℳ_s and c presented here for the spatially anisotropic models are new and can be used as benchmarks for future related studies.