Comment on “Bounding and approximating parabolas for the spectrum of Heisenberg spin systems” by H.-J. Schmidt, J. Schnack and M. Luban
Comment on “Bounding and approximating parabolas for the spectrum of Heisenberg spin systems” by H.-J. Schmidt, J. Schnack and M. Luban
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对 H.-J Schmidt、J. Schnack 和 M. Luban 的“海森堡自旋系统谱的边界和近似抛物线”的评论
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2002
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O. Waldmann
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O. Waldmann
Recently, Schmidt et al. proved that the energy spectrum of a Heisenberg spin system (HSS) is bounded by two parabolas, i.e. lines which depend on the total spin quantum number S as S(S+1). The prove holds for homonuclear HSSs which fulfill a weak homogenity condition. Moreover, the extremal values of the exact spectrum of various HSS which were studied numerically were found to lie on approximate parabolas, named rotational bands, which could be obtained by a shift of the boundary parabolas. In view of this, it has been claimed that the rotational band structure (RBS) of the energy spectrum is a general behavior of HSSs. Furthermore, since the approximate parabolas are very close to the true boundaries of the spectrum for the examples discussed, it has been claimed that the methods allow to predict the detailed shape of the spectrum and related properties for a general HSS. In this comment I will show by means of examples that the RBS hypothesis is not valid for general HSSs. In particular, weak homogenity is neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for a HSS to exhibit a spectrum with RBS.