arXiv:cond-mat/0307214 · Journal of Physics A Mathematical and General
General solutions for multispin two-time correlation and response functions in the Glauber–Ising chain
Peter B. Mayer, Peter Sollich A
Abstract
The kinetic Glauber–Ising spin chain is one of the very few exactly solvable models of non-equilibrium statistical mechanics. Nevertheless, existing solutions do not yield tractable expressions for two-time correlation and response functions of observables involving products of more than one or two spins. We use a new approach to solve explicitly the full hierarchy of differential equations for the correlation and response functions. From this general solution follow closed expressions for arbitrary multispin two-time correlation and response functions, for the case where the system is quenched from equilibrium at T i > 0 to some arbitrary T ⩾ 0. By way of application, we give the results for two- and four-spin two-time correlation and response functions. From the standard mapping, these also imply new exact results for two-time particle correlation and response functions in one-dimensional diffusion limited annihilation.