Spin dynamics of quantum and classical Heisenberg dimers

Abstract

Analytical solutions for the time-dependent autocorrelation function of the classical and quantum mechanical spin dimer with arbitrary spin are presented and compared. For large spin quantum numbers or high temperature the classical and the quantum dimer become more and more similar, yet with the major difference that the quantum autocorrelation function is periodic in time whereas the classical is not. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.