Mechanisms of decoherence in weakly anisotropic molecular magnets
Materials Science
2009-10-31 v2 Statistical Mechanics
Abstract
Decoherence mechanisms in crystals of weakly anisotropic magnetic molecules, such as V15, are studied. We show that an important decohering factor is the rapid thermal fluctuation of dipolar interactions between magnetic molecules. A model is proposed to describe the influence of this source of decoherence. Based on the exact solution of this model, we show that at relatively high temperatures, about 0.5 K, the quantum coherence in a V15 molecule is not suppressed, and, in principle, can be detected experimentally. Therefore, these molecules may be suitable prototype systems for study of physical processes taking place in quantum computers.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9906375,
title = {Mechanisms of decoherence in weakly anisotropic molecular magnets},
author = {V. V. Dobrovitski and M. I. Katsnelson and B. N. Harmon},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9906375},
year = {2009}
}
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