Related papers: Many-body models for molecular nanomagnets
Impressive advances in the field of molecular spintronics allow one to study electron transport through individual magnetic molecules embedded between metallic leads in the purely quantum regime of single electron tunneling. Besides…
We propose a new ab initio method designed for the accurate calculation of effective exchange integrals between atoms with numerous open-shells. This method applies to ferromagnetic as well as antiferromagnetic exchange, direct or…
Working in the framework of the ab-initio no-core shell model, we derive two-body effective interactions microscopically for specific harmonic-oscillator basis spaces from the realistic Argonne V8' nucleon-nucleon potential. However, our…
Molecular nanomagnets are systems with a vast phenomenology and are very promising for a variety of technological applications, most notably spintronics and quantum information. Their low-energy spectrum and magnetic properties can be…
We present a microscopic description of molecular magnets by the multi-orbital Hubbard model, which includes the correlated hopping term, i.e. the dependence of electron hopping amplitude between orbitals on the degree of their occupancy.…
We demonstrate how micromagnetic simulations can be employed in order to characterize and analyze the magnetic microstructure of nanocomposites. For the example of nanocrystalline Nd$-$Fe$-$B, which is a potential material for future…
Molecular magnets have received significant attention because of their potential applications in quantum information and quantum computing. A delicate balance of electron correlation, spin-orbit coupling (SOC), ligand field splitting, and…
A large collaboration carefully benchmarks 20 first principles many-body electronic structure methods on a test set of 7 transition metal atoms, and their ions and monoxides. Good agreement is attained between the 3 systematically converged…
Generally, the first step in modeling molecular magnets involves obtaining the low-lying eigenstates of a Heisenberg exchange Hamiltonian which conserves total spin and belongs usually to a non-Abelian point group. In quantum chemistry, it…
In the last years there has been a great interest in magnetic systems formed by a cluster of transition metal ions covalently bonded via superexchange bridges, embedded in a large organic molecule. Following the synthesis and the structural…
We present a method to calculate many-body states of interacting carriers in million atom quantum nanostructures based on atomistic tight-binding calculations and a combination of iterative selection of configurations and perturbation…
The collective behavior of chemically propelled sphere-dimer motors made from linked catalytic and noncatalytic spheres in a quasi-two-dimensional confined geometry is studied using a coarse-grained microscopic dynamical model. Chemical…
Body-centered cubic (bcc) Fe-Mn systems are known to exhibit a complex and atypical magnetic behaviour from both experiments and 0 K electronic-structure calculations, which is due to the half-filled 3d-band of Mn. We propose effective…
Nanoscale engineered spin systems, ranging from spins on surfaces to nanographenes, provide flexible platforms to realize entangled quantum magnets from a bottom up approach. However, assessing the quantum many-body Hamiltonian realized in…
The ab-initio many-body method suggested in the preceding paper is applied to the 3d transition metals Fe, Co, Ni, and Cu. We use a linearized muffin-tin orbital calculation to determine Bloch functions for the Hartree one-particle…
A brief survey of the author's works on the quantum theory of magnetism. Theoretical foundation and applications of the generalized spin-fermion (sp-d) exchange lattice model to various magnetic systems, e.g., rare-earth metals and…
A self-consistent many-body approach is proposed to build a first-principles crystal field theory, where crystal field parameters are calculated ab initio. Many-body theory is used to write the energy of the interacting system as a function…
In the last years there has been a great interest in magnetic systems formed by a cluster of transition metal ions covalently bonded via superexchange bridges, embedded in a large organic molecule. Following the synthesis and the structural…
We construct effective 2- and 3-body Hamiltonians for the p-shell by performing 12\hbar\Omega ab initio no-core shell model (NCSM) calculations for A=6 and 7 nuclei and explicitly projecting the many-body Hamiltonians onto the 0\hbar\Omega…
This contribution reviews a number of applications of the ab initio no-core shell model (NCSM) within nuclear physics and beyond. We will highlight a nuclear-structure study of the A = 12 isobar using a chiral NN + 3NF interaction. In the…