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A theoretical model of nuclear spin conversion in molecules controlled by an external electromagnetic radiation resonant to rotational transition has been developed. It has been shown that one can produce an enrichment of spin isomers and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 P. L. Chapovsky

Perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) plays a critical role in the development of spintronics, thereby demanding new strategies to control PMA. Here we demonstrate a conceptually new type of interface induced PMA that is controlled by…

We study theoretically the spin dynamics of the ferric wheel, an antiferromagnetic molecular ring. For a single nuclear or impurity spin coupled to one of the electron spins of the ring, we calculate nuclear and electronic spin correlation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Florian Meier , Daniel Loss

Information can be stored in magnetic materials by encoding with the direction of the magnetic moment of elements. A figure of merit for these systems is the energy needed to change the information rewrite the storage by changing the…

The rotational and hyperfine spectrum of the $X^1\Sigma^+ \rightarrow B^3\Pi_1$ transition in TlF molecules was measured using laser-induced fluorescence from both a thermal and a cryogenic molecular beam. Rotational and hyperfine constants…

Spin fluctuations have a substantial influence on the electron and lattice behaviors in magnetic materials, which, however, is difficult to be tracked properly by prevalent first-principles methods. We propose a versatile self-adaptive…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-02-14 Zefeng Cai , Ke Wang , Yong Xu , Su-Huai Wei , Ben Xu

Quantum information protocols utilizing atomic ensembles require preparation of a coherent spin state (CSS) of the ensemble as an important starting point. We investigate the magneto-optical resonance method for characterizing a spin state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 B. Julsgaard , J. Sherson , J. L. Sorensen , E. S. Polzik

We demonstrate bias control of the hyperfine coupling between a single electron in an InAs quantum dot and the surrounding nuclear spins monitored through the positively charged exciton X+ emission. In applied longitudinal magnetic fields…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-19 J. Nilsson , L. Bouet , A. J. Bennett , T. Amand , R. M. Stevenson , I. Farrer , D. A. Ritchie , S. Kunz , X. Marie , A. J. Shields , B. Urbaszek

Charge transport through single molecules can be influenced by the charge and spin states of redox-active metal centres placed in the transport pathway. These molecular intrinsic properties are usually addressed by varying the molecules…

Single chlorophyll-a molecules, a vital resource for the sustenance of life on Earth, have been investigated by using scanning-tunneling-microscope manipulation and spectroscopy on a gold substrate at 4.6 K. The chlorophyll-a binds on…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Violeta Iancu , Saw-Wai Hla

The spin flip of the conduction electrons at the interface of a ferromagnetic and a nonmagnetic part of a metallic wire, suspended between two electrodes, is shown to tort the wire when a current is driven through it. In order to enhance…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-10-26 Peter Fulde , Stefan Kettemann

High-spin paramagnetic manganese defects in polar piezoelectric zinc oxide exhibit a simple almost axial anisotropy and phase coherence times of the order of a millisecond at low temperatures. The anisotropy energy is tunable using an…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-01-11 Richard E George , James P Edwards , Arzhang Ardavan

We reversibly switch the polar environment of an individual magnetic atom with an electric field to control the energy barrier for reversal of magnetization. By applying an electric field in the gap between the tip and sample of a scanning…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-01 Jose Martinez-Castro , Cyrus F. Hirjibehedin , David Serrate

Experimentally observed ultrafast all-optical magnetization reversal in ferrimagnetic metals and heterostructures based on antiferromagnetically coupled ferromagnetic $d-$ and $f-$metallic layers relies on intricate energy and angular…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-03-02 Alexandra Kalashnikova , Veniamin Kozub

We analyze the interplay of spin-valley coupling, orbital physics and magnetic anisotropy taking place at single magnetic atoms adsorbed on semiconducting transition-metal dichalcogenides, MX$_2$ (M = Mo, W; X = S, Se). Orbital selection…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-12 Bin Shao , Malte Schüler , Gunnar Schönhoff , Thomas Frauenheim , Gerd Czycholl , Tim O. Wehling

The characterization and manipulation of deposited magnetic clusters or molecules on surfaces is a prerequisite for their future utilization. In recent years techniques like spin-flip inelastic electron tunneling spectroscopy using a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-03-25 H. -T. Langwald , J. Schnack

Fully-relativistic first-principles calculations of the Fe(001) surface demonstrate that resonant surface (interface) states may produce sizeable tunneling anisotropic magnetoresistance in magnetic tunnel junctions with a single magnetic…

The microscopic control available over cold atoms in optical lattices has opened new opportunities to study the properties of quantum spin models. While a lot of attention is focussed on experimentally realizing ground or thermal states via…

Recent experiments indicate room-temperature ferromagnetism in graphite-like materials. This paper offers multiple spin state analysis applied to asymmetric graphene molecule to find out mechanism of ferromagnetic nature. First principle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-01-24 Norio Ota , Narjes Gorjizadeh , Yoshiyuki Kawazoe

The controllability of charge transport through an organic molecular spin-valve system is theoretically investigated on the basis of a Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model combined with the non-equilibrium Green's function formalism. We show how the…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 J. H. Wei , S. J. Xie , L. M. Mei , YiJing Yan