Domain-wall dynamics in the Landau-Lifshitz magnet and the classical-quantum correspondence for spin transport

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Publication date 01-04-2019
Journal Physical Review B
Article number 140301
Volume | Issue number 99 | 14
Number of pages 6
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  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP) - Institute for Theoretical Physics Amsterdam (ITFA)
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP)
Abstract
We investigate the dynamics of spin in the axially anisotropic Landau-Lifshitz field theory with a magnetic domain-wall initial condition. Employing the analytic scattering technique, we obtain the exact scattering data and reconstruct the time-evolved profile. We identify three qualitatively distinct regimes of spin transport, ranging from ballistic expansion in the easy-plane regime, absence of transport in the easy-axis regime, and logarithmically enhanced diffusion for the isotropic interaction. Our results are in perfect qualitative agreement with those found in the anisotropic quantum Heisenberg spin-1/2 chain, indicating a remarkable classical-quantum correspondence for macroscopic spin transport.
Document type Article
Note ©2019 American Physical Society
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.99.140301
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