Estudo da densidade espectral de uma cadeia de Ising com campo transverso
Conrado Luiz da Silveira Folly
Abstract
In this work, we study the frequency spectrum of a spins chain in the presence of a transverse magnetic field B using the Ising model for the interaction between spins in one dimension, considering only the magnetic interactions, and assuming that the system is all the time at high temperatures. We show that for a chain of 11 spins in the presence of an external transverse magnetic field B, the dynamics of the system closely approximate the asymptotic limit of a system of infinite particles. The methodology consists of the diagonalization of the Hamiltonian of the system, by taking into account the interaction J between neighboring spins in a chain, together with the interaction of each spin with an external field transverse field B. We exactly determine the eigenvectors and eigenvalues of the system. Then we calculate the time-dependent autocorrelation function. Finally, we perform a Fourier transform of the autocorrelation function to find the frequency dependent spectral density. We obtained exact analytic results for the case of two spins, and numerically exact results for systems with up to 11 spins. Our results for the spectral densities covering three significative values of the energy parameters J and B are already very close to the thermodynamic limit. For B > J the dynamics is of collective-mode type where the spins tend to align with the external field.