Scaling of the dynamics of a homogeneous one-dimensional anisotropic classical Heisenberg model with long-range interactions

TL;DR

This paper investigates how the dynamics of a one-dimensional anisotropic classical Heisenberg model with long-range interactions scale with system size, revealing a transition from non-integer to quadratic scaling as the number of particles increases.

Contribution

It demonstrates that the scaling of the dynamics approaches N^2 in the thermodynamic limit and explains why standard kinetic theory fails for small N in such systems.

Findings

Scaling approaches N^2 as N increases

Small N effects lead to non-integer scaling exponents

The model reduces to a one-dimensional Hamiltonian system

Abstract

The dynamics of quasi-stationary states of long-range interacting systems with $N$ particles can be described by kinetic equations such as the Balescu-Lenard and Landau equations. In the case of one-dimensional homogeneous systems, two-body contributions vanish as two-body collisions in one dimension only exchange momentum and thus cannot change the one-particle distribution. Using a Kac factor in the interparticle potential implies a scaling of the dynamics proportional to $N^\delta$ with $\delta=1$ except for one-dimensional homogeneous systems. For the latter different values for $\delta$ were reported for a few models. Recently it was show by Rocha Filho and collaborators [Phys.\ Rev.\ E {\bf 90}, 032133 (2014)] for the Hamiltonian mean-field model that $\delta=2$ provided that $N$ is sufficiently large, while small $N$ effects lead to $\delta\approx1.7$. More recently Gupta and Mukamel [J.\ Stat.\ Mech.\ P03015 (2011)] introduced a classical spin model with an anisotropic interaction with a scaling in the dynamics proportional to $N^{1.7}$ for a homogeneous state. We show here that this model reduces to a one-dimensional Hamiltonian system and that the scaling of the dynamics approaches $N^2$ with increasing $N$. We also explain from theoretical consideration why usual kinetic theory fails for small $N$ values, which ultimately is the origin of non-integer exponents in the scaling.