Evgeniy Safonov, Oleg Lychkovskiy
Evolution of the z-component of a single spin in the finite cyclic XY spin 1/2 chain is studied. Initially one selected spin is polarized while other spins are completely unpolarized and uncorrelated. Polarization of the selected spin as a function of time is proportional to the autocorrelation function at infinite temperature. The initial perturbation gives rise to two wave packets moving in opposite directions and winding over the circle. We express the correlation function as a series in winding number and derive tractable approximations for each term. This allows to give qualitative explanation and quantitative description to various finite-size effects such as partial revivals and regular-to-chaotic transition.
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http://arxiv.org/abs/1109.4127
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