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Nonlinear Field Theory of Large-Spin Heisenberg Antiferromagnets: Semiclassically Quantized Solitons of the One-Dimensional Easy-Axis Néel State

F. D. M. Haldane

  • Department of Physics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089

Phys. Rev. Lett. 50, 1153 – Published 11 April, 1983

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.50.1153

Abstract

The continuum field theory describing the low-energy dynamics of the large-spin one-dimensional Heisenberg antiferromagnet is found to be the O(3) nonlinear sigma model. When weak easy-axis anisotropy is present, soliton solutions of the equations of motion are obtained and semiclassically quantized. Integer and half-integer spin systems are distinguished.

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