Fractional Dynamics and Modulational Instability in Long-Range Heisenberg Chains

Abstract

We study the effective dynamics of ferromagnetic spin chains in presence of long-range interactions. We consider the Heisenberg Hamiltonian in one dimension for which the spins are coupled through power-law long-range exchange interactions with exponent $\alpha$. We add to the Hamiltonian an anisotropy in the $z$-direction. In the framework of a semiclassical approach, we use the Holstein-Primakoff transformation to derive an effective long-range discrete nonlinear Schrödinger equation. We then perform the continuum limit and we obtain a fractional nonlinear Schrödinger-like equation. Finally, we study the modulational instability of plane-waves in the continuum limit and we prove that, at variance with the short-range case, plane waves are modulationally unstable for $\alpha <3$. We also study the dependence of the modulation instability growth rate and critical wave-number on the parameters of the Hamiltonian and on the exponent $\alpha$.

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