A two-spin system in a constant magnetic constant field along the z-axis is considered. The two spins are located along a unitary arbitrary vector separated by a fixed distance d and it is suppo-sed that their mutual interaction is of magnetic dipole type. The time-dependent Schrödinger equation is solved for different initial conditions (one of them is a spin coherent state) and one finds the density matrix of the two-spin system. By means of partial trace with respect to spin 2, one finds the density matrix of spin 1 submitted to the environment constituted by spin 2. Parame-ters characterizing the entanglement and decoherence of spin 1 produced by its interaction with the environment are calculated. This is carried out for different orientations and different separa-tions d. It is found that the above mentioned quantities are related to the Hamiltonian symmetry.
Keywords: Spin coherent states, decoherence, entanglement.