Universal Long-Time Relaxation on the Lattices of Classical Spins: Markovian Behavior on non-Markovian Timescales

Abstract

The long-time behavior of certain fast-decaying infinite temperature correlation functions on one-, two- and three-dimensional lattices of classical spins with various kinds of nearest-neighbor interactions is studied numerically, and evidence is presented that the functional form of this behavior is either simple exponential or exponential multiplied by cosine. Due to the fast characteristic timescale of the long-time decay, such a universality cannot be explained on the basis of conventional Markovian assumptions. It is suggested that this behavior is related to the chaotic properties of the spin dynamics.