A generalized Landau–Lifshitz equation for an isotropic SU(3) magnet

Abstract

In this paper we obtain equations for large-scale fluctuations of a mean field (the field of magnetization and quadrupole moments) in a magnetic system realized by a square (cubic) lattice of atoms with spins 1 at each site. We use the generalized Heisenberg Hamiltonian with a biquadratic exchange as a quantum model. A quantum thermodynamical averaging gives classical effective models, which are interpreted as Hamiltonian systems on coadjoint orbits of the Lie group SU(3).