A new formalism for the statistical dynamics of planar spin systems

Abstract

The relaxational dynamics of a classical planar Heisenberg spin system is studied using the Fokker-Planck equation. A new approach is introduced in which we attempt to directly calculate the eigenvalues of the Fokker-Planck operator. In this connection a number space representation is introduced, which enables us to visualize the eigenvalue structure of the Fokker-Planck operator. The mean field approximation is derived and a systematic method to improve the mean field approximation is presented.