Dynamics of mixed quantum-classical spin systems

DOI10.1088/1751-8121/ACC145MaRDI QIDQ6412743arXivFDO

Authors François Gay-Balmaz, Cesare Tronci

Publication date 3 October 2022

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1088/1751-8121/ACC145

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lie bialgebras; Lie coalgebras (17B62) Nonholonomic systems related to the dynamics of a system of particles (70F25) Hamilton's equations (70H05) Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20) Spinor and twistor methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R25) Extremal problems for conformal and quasiconformal mappings, variational methods (30C70) Uncertainty relations, also entropic (81S07)

arXiv classification

math-phmath.MPquant-phmath.SGcond-mat.mes-hall

Abstract: Mixed quantum-classical spin systems have been proposed in spin chain theory and, more recently, in magnon spintronics. However, current models of quantum-classical dynamics beyond mean-field approximations typically suffer from long-standing consistency issues, and, in some cases, invalidate Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. Here, we present a fully Hamiltonian theory of quantum-classical spin dynamics that appears to be the first to ensure an entire series of consistency properties, including positivity of both the classical and the quantum density, so that Heisenberg's principle is satisfied at all times. We show how this theory may connect to recent energy-balance considerations in measurement theory and we present its Poisson bracket structure explicitly. After focusing on the simpler case of a classical Bloch vector interacting with a quantum spin observable, we illustrate the extension of the model to systems with several spins, and restore the presence of orbital degrees of freedom.

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