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Hauptverfasser: Nussle, Thomas, Nicolis, Stam, Sofos, Iason, Barker, Joseph
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Veröffentlicht: 2025
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Online-Zugang:https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.19113
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author Nussle, Thomas
Nicolis, Stam
Sofos, Iason
Barker, Joseph
author_facet Nussle, Thomas
Nicolis, Stam
Sofos, Iason
Barker, Joseph
contents In this work, we propose a path integral-inspired formalism for computing the quantum thermal expectation values of spin systems, when subject to magnetic fields that can be time-dependent and can accommodate the presence of Heisenberg exchange interactions between the spins. This is done by deriving an effective magnetic field from the quantum partition function of the system to use in classical atomistic spin dynamics simulations and generalises the formalism presented in our previous work [Phys. Rev. Research 5, 043075 (2023)]. In special cases where the effective field can be computed exactly we compare our results with exact/numerical diagonalisation methods for both ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic coupling. We show that our method works well across a large temperature range and can reproduce quantum expectation values for antiferromagnetic coupling which is usually not possible with classical models.
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spellingShingle Path integral spin dynamics with exchange and external field
Nussle, Thomas
Nicolis, Stam
Sofos, Iason
Barker, Joseph
Quantum Physics
Materials Science
Computational Physics
In this work, we propose a path integral-inspired formalism for computing the quantum thermal expectation values of spin systems, when subject to magnetic fields that can be time-dependent and can accommodate the presence of Heisenberg exchange interactions between the spins. This is done by deriving an effective magnetic field from the quantum partition function of the system to use in classical atomistic spin dynamics simulations and generalises the formalism presented in our previous work [Phys. Rev. Research 5, 043075 (2023)]. In special cases where the effective field can be computed exactly we compare our results with exact/numerical diagonalisation methods for both ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic coupling. We show that our method works well across a large temperature range and can reproduce quantum expectation values for antiferromagnetic coupling which is usually not possible with classical models.
title Path integral spin dynamics with exchange and external field
topic Quantum Physics
Materials Science
Computational Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.19113