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The Radical Pair Mechanism is a canonical model for the magnetosensitivity of chemical reaction processes. The key ingredient of this model is the hyperfine interaction that induces a coherent mixing of singlet and triplet electron spin…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-09-12 Robert H. Keens , Salil Bedkihal , Daniel R. Kattnig

In the present letter we suggest a new theoretical model for a quantitative description of the magnetoreception mechanism in birds. The considered mechanism involves two types of iron minerals (magnetite and maghemite) which were found in…

Biological Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ilia A. Solov'yov , Walter Greiner

The radical-pair-based chemical reaction could be used by birds for the navigation via the geomagnetic direction. An inherent physical mechanism is that the quantum coherent transition from a singlet state to triplet states of the radical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-02-23 C. Y. Cai , Qing Ai , H. T. Quan , C. P. Sun

How migratory birds can find the right way in navigating over thousand miles is an intriguing question, which much interested researchers in both fields of biology and physics for centuries. There several putative proposals that sound…

Biological Physics · Physics 2021-06-25 Xin Zhao , Hong-Bo Chen , Li-Hua Lu , You-Quan Li

The radical pair mechanism is a leading hypothesis in animal magnetic navigation. This mechanism associates the magnetic sense with the visual system, the radical pairs in cryptochromes of the eye retina being specialized magnetic receptors…

Biological Physics · Physics 2018-02-09 Vladimir N. Binhi , Frank S. Prato

The yield of chemical reactions involving intermediate radical pairs is influenced by magnetic fields well beyond the levels expected from energy considerations. This dependence can be traced back to the microscopic dynamics of electron…

Biological Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Gian Giacomo Guerreschi , Markus Tiersch , Ulrich E. Steiner , Hans J. Briegel

The radical pair mechanism (RPM) in the chemical magnetic compass model is considered to be one of the most promising candidates for the avian magnetic navigation, and quantum needle phenomenon further boosts the navigation precision to a…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Xiaoyu Chen , Haibin Liu , Jianming Cai

Radical pairs and the dynamics they undergo are prevalent in many chemical and biological systems. Specifically, it has been proposed that the radical pair mechanism results from a relatively strong hyperfine interaction with its intrinsic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-26 Amit Finkler , Durga Dasari

Among the possible types of magnetic dipole interactions in molecular systems, couplings between nuclear motion and the nuclear spin have probably received the least attention in molecular spectroscopy. Although very small in comparison to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-22 Matthias Diez , Johannes K. Krondorfer , Albert Hirtenfelder , Andreas W. Hauser

The mechanism underlying magnetoreception has long eluded explanation. A popular hypothesis attributes this sense to the quantum coherent spin dynamics of spin-selective recombination reactions of radical pairs in the protein cryptochrome.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Luke D. Smith , Farhan T. Chowdhury , Iona Peasgood , Nahnsu Dawkins , Daniel R. Kattnig

The use of nuclear spins as physical sensing systems is disadvantaged by their low signal responsivity, particularly when compared to sensing techniques based on electron spins. This primarily results from the small nuclear gyromagnetic…

Magnetosensitive spin-correlated radical-pairs (SCRPs) offer a promising platform for noise-robust quantum metrology. However, unavoidable interradical interactions, such as electron-electron dipolar and exchange couplings, alongside…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Luke D. Smith , Farhan T. Chowdhury , Jonas Glatthard , Daniel R. Kattnig

Magnetic anisotropy phenomena in bimetallic antiferromagnets Mn$_2$Au and MnIr are studied by first-principles density functional theory calculations. We find strong and lattice-parameter dependent magnetic anisotropies of the ground state…

Magnetic measurement can be performed by various sensors, such as SQUID and Giant Magnetoresistance. This device can achieve high accuracy while losing efficiency and convenience. The model of biological magnetic sensing in avian proposes a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-25 Wei-Yin Chiang , Yuan-Chung Cheng , Min-Hsiu Hsieh

The functional window is an experimentally observed property of the avian compass that refers to its selectivity around the geomagnetic field strength. We show that the radical-pair model, using biologically feasible hyperfine parameters,…

Biological Physics · Physics 2017-05-31 Vishvendra Singh Poonia , Kiran Kondabagil , Dipankar Saha , Swaroop Ganguly

An isotropic medium, having magnetic sublevels, when subjected to a magnetic field or an electromagnetic field can induce anisotropy in the medium; and as a result the plane of polarization of the probe field can rotate. Therefore the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Anil K. Patnaik , G. S. Agarwal

The mechanism of avian navigation is an important question for global scientists. One of the most famous candidates is the radical pair mechanism (RPM), which shows that avian navigation is achieved by detecting the amount of products from…

Biological Physics · Physics 2023-01-02 Jia-Yi Wu , Xin-Yuan Hu , Hai-Yuan Zhu , Ru-Qiong Deng , Qing Ai

Sr$_2$RuO$_4$ is the best candidate for spin-triplet superconductivity, an unusual and elusive superconducting state of fundamental importance. In the last three decades Sr$_2$RuO$_4$ has been very carefully studied and despite its apparent…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-07-14 Bongjae Kim , Sergii Khmelevskyi , I. I. Mazin , D. F. Agterberg , Cesare Franchini

Theoretical studies indicating the presence of long-lived coherence in the radical pair system have engendered questions about the utilitarian role of sustained coherence in the avian compass. In this manuscript, we investigate this for a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-23 Rakshit Jain , Vishvendra Singh Poonia , Kasturi Saha , Dipankar Saha , Swaroop Ganguly

It was experimentally observed that both magnetic anisotropy and spin-orbit interaction strength change when the magnetization of the nanomagnet is reversed. This indicates a variation in spin-orbit interaction strength depending on whether…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-10 Vadym Zayets