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Time Evolution of Spin Waves

Statistical Mechanics 2009-10-31 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

A rigorous derivation of macroscopic spin-wave equations is demonstrated. We introduce a macroscopic mean-field limit and derive the so-called Landau-Lifshitz equations for spin waves. We first discuss the ferromagnetic Heisenberg model at T=0 and finally extend our analysis to general spin hamiltonians for the same class of ferromagnetic ground states.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9909146,
  title  = {Time Evolution of Spin Waves},
  author = {M Moser and A Prets and W L Spitzer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9909146},
  year   = {2009}
}

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4 pages, to appear in PRL