Quantum fluctuations in Sine-Gordon like magnetic chains: Corrections to soliton energies |
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Authors: | H -J Mikeska B Vaz da costa H C Fogedby |
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Institution: | (1) Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Hannover, Appelstrasse 2, D-3000 Hannover 1, Federal Republic of Germany;(2) Institute of Physics, University of Aarhus, DK-8000 Aarhus, Denmark;(3) Present address: Department of Physics, University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil |
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Abstract: | The effect of quantum fluctuations on solitons in the easy-plane ferromagnetic chain is considered within the semiclassical approximation. In accordance with the low temperature ideal gas picture we treat the solitons as a Boltzmann gas and impose quantisation on the spin wave spectrum. We present a method which allows to calculate quantum corrections in a systematic perturbation expansion in 1/S, whereS is the spin length. We use this method to obtain the soliton energy to second order at zero temperature. Our results indicate that the semiclassical approach reasonably describes quantum effects on soliton properties. |
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