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Theoretical study of the indirect coupling of nuclear spins (qubits) embedded into a mesoscopic ring and in a finite length quantum wire in a magnetic field is presented. It is found that the hyperfine interaction, via the conduction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 Yu. V. Pershin , I. D. Vagner , P. Wyder

The theory for the quantum tunneling of nano-magnets is developed within the intermediate spin framework. Periodic magnetic effects are seen to reflect that associated with a change of flux by a single flux quantum $\Phi_{0}$. Essential are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. E. Barnes

This chapter takes a microscopic view of quantum tunneling of magnetization (QTM) in single-molecule magnets (SMMs), focusing on the interplay between exchange and anisotropy. Careful consideration is given to the relationship between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-04 Junjie Liu , Enrique del Barco , Stephen Hill

At temperatures below the magnetic anisotropy energy, monodomain magnetic systems (small particles, nanomagnetic devices, etc.) must relax quantum mechanically. This quantum relaxation must be mediated by the coupling to both nuclear spins…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 N. V. Prokof'ev , P. C. E. Stamp

The physics of interacting nuclear spins arranged in a crystalline lattice is typically described using a thermodynamic framework: a variety of experimental studies in bulk solid-state systems have proven the concept of a spin temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-21 P. Maletinsky , M. Kroner , A. Imamoglu

The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centre, as a promising candidate solid state system of quantum information processing, its electron spin coherence is influenced by the magnetic field fluctuations due to the local environment. In pure diamonds,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-08 Nan Zhao , Jian-Liang Hu , Sai-Wah Ho , Tsz-Kai Wen , R. B. Liu

We investigate in detail, using both analytical and numerical tools, the decoherence of electron spins in quantum dots (QDs) coupled to a bath of nuclear spins in magnetic fields or with various initial bath polarizations, focusing on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Wenxian Zhang , V. V. Dobrovitski , K. A. Al-Hassanieh , E. Dagotto , B. N. Harmon

We numerically study the hyperfine induced nuclear spin dynamics in a system of two coupled quantum dots in zero magnetic field. Each of the electron spins is considered to interact with an individual bath of nuclear spins via homogeneous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-28 Bjoern Erbe , John Schliemann

Among the factors determining the quantum coherence of the spin in molecular magnets is the presence and the nature of nuclear spins in the molecule. We have explored modifying the nuclear spin environment in Cr$_7$Ni-based molecular…

The nuclear spin, being much more isolated from the environment than its electronic counterpart, enables quantum experiments with prolonged coherence times and presents a gateway towards uncovering the intricate dynamics within an atom.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-08 Lukas M. Veldman , Evert W. Stolte , Mark P. Canavan , Rik Broekhoven , Philip Willke , Laëtitia Farinacci , Sander Otte

This thesis contains a thorough investigation of the quantum spin dynamics in Mn12-ac and Mn6 Single-molecule magnets. In particular, we have investigated the interplay between quantum tunneling of magnetization and nuclear spin dynamics in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-29 Andrea Morello

The spin coherence phenomena and the possibility of their observation in nanomagnetic insulators attract more and more attention in the last several years. Recently it has been shown that in these systems in large transverse magnetic field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 I. S. Tupitsyn

The phenomenology of quantum phase transitions concerns physics at low temperatures and energies, and corresponding solid-state experiments often reach millikelvin temperatures. However, this is a scale where in many solids the influence of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-03-17 Heike Eisenlohr , Matthias Vojta

We develop a quantum theory for a variety of nuclear spin dynamics such as dephasing, relaxation, squeezing, and narrowing due to the hyperfine interaction with a generic, dissipative electronic system. The first-order result of our theory…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-05 Ping Wang , Jiangfeng Du , Wen Yang

Molecular spin clusters are mesoscopic systems whose structural and physical features can be tailored at the synthetic level. Besides, their quantum behavior is directly accessible in laboratory and their magnetic properties can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 F. Troiani , V. Bellini , A. Candini , G. Lorusso , M. Affronte

We present a unified description of cooling and manipulation of a mesoscopic bath of nuclear spins via coupling to a single quantum system of electronic spin (quantum bit). We show that a bath cooled by the quantum bit rapidly saturates.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. M. Taylor , A. Imamoglu , M. D. Lukin

Molecular nanomagnets are compounds characterized by a high-spin magnetic core that is protected by organic ligands. They have recently gained attention as potential quantum information carriers in solid-state quantum computing platforms,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Alessandra Cammarata , Steve Campbell , Mauro Paternostro

Controlling the motion of macroscopic oscillators in the quantum regime has been the subject of intense research in recent decades. In this direction, opto-mechanical systems, where the motion of micro-objects is strongly coupled with laser…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-03 Maxime Perdriat , Clément Pellet-Mary , Paul Huillery , Loïc Rondin , Gabriel Hétet

Numerical modelling of coherent spin relaxation in nanomagnets, formed by magnetic molecules of high spins, is accomplished. Such a coherent spin dynamics can be realized in the presence of a resonant electric circuit coupled to the magnet.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. I. Yukalov , V. K. Henner , P. V. Kharebov

The ability to manipulate single atoms has opened up the door to constructing interesting and useful quantum structures from the ground up. On the one hand, nanoscale arrangements of magnetic atoms are at the heart of future quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-20 R. Toskovic , R. van den Berg , A. Spinelli , I. S. Eliens , B. van den Toorn , B. Bryant , J. -S. Caux , A. F. Otte