Spin coherent-state path integrals and the instanton calculus

DOI10.1063/1.1521797MaRDI QIDQ4832869zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Anupam Garg, Evgueny Kochetov, Kee-Su Park, Michael Stone

Publication date 14 December 2004

Published in Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0111139

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of manifolds of mappings to the sciences (58D30) Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20) Path integrals in quantum mechanics (81S40)

Abstract: We use an instanton approximation to the continuous-time spin coherent-state path integral to obtain the tunnel splitting of classically degenerate ground states. We show that provided the fluctuation determinant is carefully evaluated, the path integral expression is accurate to order O(1/j). We apply the method to the LMG model and to the molecular magnet Fe_8 in a transverse field.

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