DYNAMIC CORRELATIONS OF THE CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM TODA LATTICE

The dynamic correlations of classical and quantum Toda lattices are approached by moment expansion. For the classical model, the moments of the spectral shape of the displacement-displacement correlation function are exactly calculated up to the eighth one, while, for the quantum system, their evaluation is limited to the sixth one, using the effective-potential method in low-coupling approximation. The spectral shape is calculated using the continued-fraction expansion. The relevance of quantum effects is clearly shown, in dependence on temperature and quantum coupling. At all wave vectors, the spectral shape presents a single-peak structure, both in the classical and in the quantum regime.