Unified decoupling scheme for exchange and anisotropy contributions and temperature-dependent spectral properties of anisotropic spin systems

• Published in: Physical review. B, Condensed matter and materials physics Condensed matter and materials physics, 2012-09, Vol.86 (9), Article 094415
• Main Authors: Bastardis, R., Atxitia, U., Chubykalo-Fesenko, O., Kachkachi, H.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Anisotropy; Decoupling; Density; Exchange; Green's functions; Mathematical analysis; Mathematical models; Spectra
• ISSN: 1098-0121; 1550-235X
• DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.86.094415

We compute the temperature-dependent spin-wave spectrum and the magnetization for a spin system using the unified decoupling procedure for the high-order Green's functions for the exchange coupling and anisotropy in both the classical and quantum cases. Our approach allows us to establish a clear crossover between quantum-mechanical and classical methods by developing the classical analog of the quantum Green's function technique. The results are compared with the classical spectral density method and numerical modeling based on the stochastic Landau-Lifshitz equation and Monte Carlo technique. As far as the critical temperature is concerned, there is a full agreement between the classical Green's functions technique and the classical spectral density method. However, the former method turns out to be more straightforward than the latter because it avoids any a priori assumptions about the system's spectral density. The temperature-dependent exchange stiffness as a function of magnetization is investigated within different approaches.