Fractional dynamics and modulational instability in long-range Heisenberg chains

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DOI10.1016/J.CNSNS.2022.106917zbMATH Open1505.82058arXiv2210.13201OpenAlexW4300772204MaRDI QIDQ2108658FDOQ2108658


Authors: Mbetkwe Youwa Laetitia, Jean-Pierre Nguenang, Paul André Paglan, Thierry Dauxois, Andrea Trombettoni, S. Ruffo Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 20 December 2022

Published in: Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the effective dynamics of ferromagnetic spin chains in presence of long-range interactions. We consider the Heisenberg Hamiltonian in one dimension for which the spins are coupled through power-law long-range exchange interactions with exponent alpha. We add to the Hamiltonian an anisotropy in the z-direction. In the framework of a semiclassical approach, we use the Holstein-Primakoff transformation to derive an effective long-range discrete nonlinear Schr"odinger equation. We then perform the continuum limit and we obtain a fractional nonlinear Schr"odinger-like equation. Finally, we study the modulational instability of plane-waves in the continuum limit and we prove that, at variance with the short-range case, plane waves are modulationally unstable for alpha<3. We also study the dependence of the modulation instability growth rate and critical wave-number on the parameters of the Hamiltonian and on the exponent alpha.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.13201




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