Moment-Method Calculation of Magnetization and Interspin-Energy Diffusion

The general moment-method calculation of diffusion is reviewed for the high-temperature long-wavelength limit. The temporal Fourier transform of the correlation function is assumed Lorentzian with a Gaussian cutoff. Exact expressions for the second and fourth moments are obtained as lattice sums over the spin-spin interactions. For a spin system with H=1/2Σi,j^AᵢⱼIᵢ·Iⱼ, and Aᵢⱼ nonzero only for i, j nearest neighbors, one has D=cAᵢⱼb², where b is the nearest-neighbor distance and $c=0.328$ for the bcc lattice and 0.296 for the sc lattice; the latter agrees with a similar calculation by Mori and Kawasaki. For exchange-energy diffusion, $c=0.67$ for the bcc lattice. In a classical dipolar spin system, the exact moment method gives nearly the same result as the density matrix theory of Lowe and Gade. Reduction of diffusion by moderate quadrupolar interaction and diffusion energetics in an inhomogeneous field are discussed.