The ground state and the phase transitions of the bilayered spin-S anti-ferromagnetic Heisenberg model were studied by Ng et al.1 by using the Schwinger boson mean field theory. In this paper, an analytic continuation of the self-consistent equations is carried out in order to study the extension of the model to fractional dimensions from 1 to 2. Decreasing the dimensionality from 2 has an effect similar to that of decreasing the spin S. The corresponding phase diagram and phase transition will also be discussed.
Adapting Poisson-Boltzmann to the self-consistent mean field theory: Application to protein side-chain modeling
