Cumulant approach to weakly doped antiferromagnets
arXiv:cond-mat/9609098 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.54.15483
Abstract
We present a new approach to static and dynamical properties of holes and spins in weakly doped antiferromagnets in two dimensions. The calculations are based on a recently introduced cumulant approach to ground--state properties of correlated electronic systems. The present method allows to evaluate hole and spin--wave dispersion relations by considering hole or spin excitations of the ground state. Usually, these dispersions are found from time--dependent correlation functions. To demonstrate the ability of the approach we first derive the dispersion relation for the lowest single hole excitation at half--filling. However, the main purpose of this paper is to focus on the mutual influence of mobile holes and spin waves in the weakly doped system. It is shown that low-energy spin excitations strongly admix to the ground--state. The coupling of spin waves and holes leads to a strong suppression of the staggered magnetization which can not be explained by a simple rigid--band picture for the hole quasiparticles. Also the experimentally observed doping dependence of the spin--wave excitation energies can be understood within our formalism.
REVTEX, 25 pages, 7 figures (EPS), to be published in Phys. Rev. B
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