Coupled-cluster treatments of correlations in quantum antiferromagnets

The coupled-cluster method (CCM) is applied to anisotropic-quantum- antiferromagnetic models in one and two dimensions (1D and 2D). Several hierarchical approximation schemes of the CCM are defined, which are specialized for the spin-lattice models. Good results are obtained for both ground-state and excited-state energies. The spin-spin correlation functions and the staggered magnetizations are also calculated. We have found that the CCM gives a qualitatively correct description of the entire Heisenberg-Ising phase, including the critical point where a phase transition occurs in 1D. Some interesting differences between 1D and 2D models near the critical point are discussed.