Abstract
The spin wave theory of Kondo and Yamaji is applied to the spin 1/2 XY model in one to three dimensions. In one dimension, the value of the gap Δ which appears in the spectrum of x -component spin remains finite up to 0 K, and no phase transition occurs. The value of the nearest neighbour correlation function is in good agreement with the exact values. In three dimensions, Δ vanishes at a finite temperature, and the second order phase transition occurs. In two dimensions, as T →0, Δ becomes very small for square lattice and tends to zero as exp (- T 0 / T ) for triangular lattice, which means the non-existence of the phase transition. The susceptibility, however, becomes anomalously large for low temperatures, and the extrapolation of Curie-Weiss law gives a “fictitious” transition temperature whose value agrees with those given by the high temperature expansion and the real space renormalization group theory.
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