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Physical review. B, Condensed matter

Dynamics of Heisenberg ferromagnets at low temperature

Minoru Takahashi

Published Jul 1, 1990• 24 citations
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Abstract

The dynamical correlation function ${\mathit{G}}_{\mathbf{r}}$(t)==〈${\mathbf{S}}_{\mathbf{r}}$(t)\ensuremath{\cdot}${\mathbf{S}}_{0}$(0)〉 and dynamical structure factor ${\mathit{S}}_{\mathbf{q}}$(\ensuremath{\omega}) are calculated by the modified spin-wave theory for the low-dimensional quantum Heisenberg ferromagnets at low temperature. We use the Dyson-Maleev transformation, ideal spin-wave states, and the rotational averaging. ${\mathit{S}}_{\mathbf{q}}$(\ensuremath{\omega}) satisfies the dynamic scaling relation. The explicit form of the scaling function is obtained. The classical limit of our results is compared with a molecular-dynamics calculation. The agreement is surprisingly good.

DOI
10.1103/physrevb.42.766

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