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We study tunneling of the magnetic moment in a particle that has full rotational freedom. Exact energy levels are obtained and the ground-state magnetic moment is computed for a symmetric rotor. The effect of the mechanical freedom on spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-07 M. F. O'Keeffe , E. M. Chudnovsky , D. A. Garanin

The tunneling splitting of the energy levels of a ferromagnetic particle in the presence of an applied magnetic field - previously derived only for the ground state with the path integral method - is obtained in a simple way from…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-08-17 J. -Q. Liang , H. J. W. Mueller-Kirsten , A. V. Shurgaia , F. Zimmerschied

Quasi-static models of barrier suppression have played a major role in our understanding of the ionization of atoms and molecules in strong laser fields. Despite their success, in the case of diatomic molecules these studies have so far…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Bartsch , T. Uzer

We construct useful sets of one-particle states in the quantum Hall system based on the von Neumann lattice. Using the set of momentum states, we develop a field-theoretical formalism and apply the formalism to the system subjected to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-06 K. Ishikawa , N. Maeda , T. Ochiai , H. Suzuki

We consider magnetic breakdown in twisted bilayer graphene where electrons may hop between semiclassical $k$-space trajectories in different layers. These trajectories within a doubled Brillouin zone constitute a network in which an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-11 Chi-Ken Lu , H. A. Fertig

A new method based on modified optical Bloch equations is proposed for studying resonant tunneling in semiconductor heterostructures. The method manifestly takes account of electrons' statistics, which enables to investigate the influence…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 S. A. Gurvitz , H. J. Lipkin , Ya. S. Prager

A simple algebraic model for charged particle moving in two dimensional space under influence of singular magnetic field is given. The fundamental assumption for the model is that every charged particle coupled to the magnetic field is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Wladyslaw Marcinek

A topological phase can be engineered in quantum physics from the Bloch sphere of a spin-1/2 showing an hedgehog structure as a result of a radial magnetic field. We elaborate on a relation between the formation of an entangled wavefunction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-28 Karyn Le Hur

The evolution of the quantum wave packet describing an atom trapped in the surface-tip junction of the scanning tunneling microscope is investigated by using the time-dependent Schroedinger equation, and by a quasi-classical Hamiltonian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-21 M. Grigorescu

In conducting films subjected to an out-of-plane magnetic field, electron motion along the field direction gives rise to conductance oscillations periodic in field intensity - a phenomenon known as Sondheimer oscillations. Traditionally,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-19 Alexander Nikolaenko , Pavel A. Nosov

A hierarchical ordering is demonstrated for the periodic orbits in a strongly coupled multidimensional Hamiltonian system, namely the hydrogen atom in crossed electric and magnetic fields. It mirrors the hierarchy of broken resonant tori…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-08-16 Stephan Gekle , Jörg Main , Thomas Bartsch , T. Uzer

The quantum mechanical counterpart of the famous Stoner-Wohlfarth model -- an easy-axis magnet in a tilted magnetic field -- is studied theoretically and through simulations, as a function of the spin-size $S$ in a sweeping longitudinal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-01-27 Takuya Hatomura , Bernard Barbara , Seiji Miyashita

In this paper, we consider the semiclassical 2D magnetic Schr{\"o}dinger operator in the case where the magnetic field vanishes along a smooth closed curve. Assuming that this curve has an axis of symmetry, we prove that semi-classical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-12-09 Khaled Abou Alfa

The motion of neutral particles with magnetic moments in an inhomogeneous magnetic field is described in a semi-classical framework. The concept of Coherent Internal States is used in the formulation of the semiclassical approximation from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 S. Cruz-Barrios , J. Gomez-Camacho

In the first part of this work we apply Bohr (old or naive quantum atomic) theory for analysis of the remarkable electro-dynamical problem of magnetic monopoles. We reproduce formally exactly some basic elements of the Dirac magnetic…

General Physics · Physics 2015-08-31 Vladan Pankovic

The time evolution of a two-level quantum mechanical system can be geometrically described using the Bloch sphere. By mapping the Bloch sphere evolution onto the dynamics of oscillating electric dipoles, we provide a physically intuitive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-31 Amar C. Vutha

Classical nonlinear theories are highly successful in describing far-from-equilibrium dynamics of magnets, encompassing phenomena such as parametric resonance, ultrafast switching, and even chaos. However, at ultrashort length and time…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-15 Lukas Körber , Pim Coenders , Johan H. Mentink

A theory of the magnetic field driven (semi-)metal-insulator phase transition is developed for planar systems with a low density of carriers and a linear (i.e., relativistic like) dispersion relation for low energy quasiparticles. The…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 E. V. Gorbar , V. P. Gusynin , V. A. Miransky , I. A. Shovkovy

A quantum statistical theory of spin-dependent tunneling through asymmetric magnetic double barrier junctions is presented which describes $both$ ballistic and diffuse tunneling by a single analytical expression. It is evidenced that the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Chshiev , D. Stoeffler , A. Vedyayev , K. Ounadjela

In the ballistic regime we study both semiclassically and quantum mechanically the electron's dynamics in two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in the presence of an inhomogeneous magnetic field applied perpendicular to the plane. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 Róbert Németh , Zoltán Kaufmann , József Cserti