Thermalization of a Magnetic Impurity in the IsotropicModel
- 16 November 1970
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 25 (20) , 1449-1450
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.25.1449
Abstract
We carry out an exact study of the relaxation of a single magnetic impurity embedded in a linear quantum chain. We obtain a rigorous result for the expectation value of any spin in the chain, and find that it relaxes to its equilibrium value as .
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