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Symmetric spin Hamiltonian

After some consideration the Hamiltonian of equation 8.1 was taken for consideration with tex2html_wrap_inline15129 a constant, i.e. isotropic in both spin and space dimensions, infinite space dimension, i.e. every spin interacting equally with every other spin, a spin dimension of three, i.e. Heisenberg spins, and zero external field. This is analogous to the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick (SK) model (infinite space dimension) [45], but the interaction strength in the SK case is taken as a site-random quantity and the spins are Ising, which implies that the SK analysis is necessarily classical. Thus the Hamiltonian of interest is
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When this Hamiltonian is written, as below, in terms of the total spin tex2html_wrap_inline15135 and the individual spins then the eigenstates are immediately seen to be those where the system total and individual angular momentum j values are listed.
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David Wolf
Tue Mar 25 08:11:49 CST 1997