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Journal of Physics C Solid State Physics

On the inhomogeneous Heisenberg chain

Раджа Балакришнан

Published Dec 30, 1982• 75 citations
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Abstract

The author derives the spin evolution equation of a classical inhomogeneous Heisenberg chain and proves its exact equivalence (in the continuum limit) to an integro-differential nonlinear Schrodinger equation whose soliton solutions have been discussed earlier. Energy transport along the chain is related to the solution of this equation. He also describes possible physical systems to which the model is applicable.

DOI
10.1088/0022-3719/15/36/007

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The author derives the spin evolution equation of a classical inhomogeneous Heisenberg chain and proves its exact equivalence (in the continuum limit) to an integro-differential nonlinear Schrodinger equation whose soliton solutions have been discussed earlier. Energy transport along the chain is related to the solution of this equation. He also describes possible physical systems to which the model is applicable.
Using the coherent states method combined with the Schwinger coupled boson representation of the spin operators (1965) it is shown that solitons can propagate in the continuum limit of the quantum ferromagnetic Heisenberg chain. These solitons are solutions of a nonlinear Schrodinger equation similar to that discussed by Lakshmanan (1977) for the classical Heisenberg chain. Several characteristics of the soliton, like its momentum, energy, and the number of bosonic excitations involved in the soliton formation, are calculated.
The Heisenberg Spin Chain system, in the continuum limit, can be represented by the non-linear Schr\odinger equation through the Hashimoto map. Inhomogeneity induced through localizing the nearest neighbor interaction strength can also be mapped similarly to an integro -differential generalization of the non-linear Schrodinger system [J. Phys. C: Solid State Phys. 15, L1305 (1982)] which is integrable. We show that the latter system is a particular non-holonomic deformation of the usual non-linear Schrodinger equation, aided by generalized parameterizations. General non-holonomic deformations correspond only to temporal inhomogeneity, with the additional spatial inhomogeneity corresponding to particular spectral orders, identical for both continuum Heisenberg spin chain and non-linear schrodinger system. Being semi-Classical in nature, these continuum limits of spin system display amplitude-phase entanglement.
The integrability aspects of a classical one-dimensional continuum isotropic biquadratic Heisenberg spin chain in its continuum limit up to order [O(a4)] in the lattice parameter ‘‘a’’ are studied. Through a differential geometric approach, the dynamical equation for the spin chain is expressed in the form of a higher-order generalized nonlinear Schrödinger equation (GNLSE). An integrable biquadratic chain that is a deformation of the lower-order continuum isotropic spin chain, is identified by carrying out a Painlevé singularity structure analysis on the GNLSE (also through gauge analysis) and its properties are discussed briefly. For the nonintegrable chain, the perturbed soliton solution is obtained through a multiple scale analysis.
The spin evolution equation of an isotropic, quantum ferromagnetic Heisenberg chain is analyzed in the continuum approximation using spin-coherent states. The advantages of this approach are discussed. Magnetic solitary-wave solutions are found, and the expectation values of the energy, momentum, and angular momentum corresponding to these solutions are determined. The energy-momentum dispersion relation for the nonlinear excitations is derived. The semiclassical spectrum is shown to arise when quantum effects are neglected by using a random-phase approximation to calculate certain expectation values. On including the quantum effects, it is found that the spectrum comprises two branches: a lower-energy branch of spin-wave-like, small-amplitude solitary waves with small quantum corrections, and a higher branch of particlelike large-amplitude solitary waves subject to significant quantum corrections for small S values. A heuristic discussion of the stability of these excitations is presented. A physical interpretation of the dispersion relation obtained is given.