Evolution of a quantum spin system to its ground state: Role of entanglement and interaction symmetry

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Yuan, Shengjun ^a   Katsnelson, Mikhail I ^b   De Raedt, Hans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROUND STATE; MAGNETIC COUPLINGS; MAGNETIZATION; RELAXATION PROCESSES; SPIN DYNAMICS;

ANTIFERROMAGNETICALLY COUPLED SPINS; MODEL PARAMETERS; TWO-SPIN SYSTEM;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 34347342776     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.75.052109     Document Type: Article

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