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It is shown that the collective spin rotation of a single Skyrmion in quantum Hall ferromagnet can be regarded as precession of the entire spin texture in the external magnetic field, with an effective moment of inertia which becomes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Maniv , Yu. A. Bychkov , I. D. Vagner

We study theoretically the quantum size effects of a magnetic resonant tunneling diode (RTD) with a (Zn,Mn)Se dilute magnetic semiconductor layer on the spin-tunneling time and the spin polarization of the electrons. The results show that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-24 Alireza Saffarzadeh , Reza Daqiq

We solve Schr\"odinger equation describing a tunneling macrospin coupled to a torsional oscillator. Energy spectrum is studied for various quantum regimes. Magnetic susceptibility and noise spectrum are computed. We show that entanglement…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-10 D. A. Garanin , E. M. Chudnovsky

We propose a solid-state nuclear spin quantum computer based on application of scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and well-developed silicon technology. It requires the measurement of tunneling current modulation caused by the Larmor…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. P. Berman , G. W. Brown , M. E. Hawley , V. I. Tsifrinovich

Magnetic skyrmion motion induced by an electric current has drawn much interest because of its application potential in next-generation magnetic memory devices. Recently, unidirectional skyrmion motion driven by an oscillating magnetic…

This paper proposes a universal microscopic model for the shallow confinement regime of single-electron tunneling devices. We consider particle escape from a quantum well generically emerging as a bifurcation in a smooth electrostatic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-11 Austris Akmentinsh , Niels Ubbelohde , Vyacheslavs Kashcheyevs

We present a methodology based on quantum mechanics for assigning quantum conductivity when an ac field is applied across a variable gap between two plasmonic nanoparticles with an insulator sandwiched between them. The quantum tunneling…

In the paper we dscuss experimental results of M. Grayson et al. on tunneling $I$-$V$ characteristics of the quantum Hall edge. We suggest a two step tunneling mechanism involving localized electron states near the edge, which might account…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Alekseev , V. Cheianov , A. P. Dmitriev , V. Yu. Kachorovskii

By measuring electron tunneling between a ferromagnet and individual energy levels in an aluminum quantum dot, we show how spin-resolved quantum states can be used as filters to determine spin-dependent tunneling rates. We also observe…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Mandar M. Deshmukh , D. C. Ralph

The Landau Zener model has recently been used to measure very small tunnel splittings in molecular clusters of Fe8, which at low temperature behaves like a nanomagnet with a spin ground state of S = 10. The observed oscillations of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 W. Wernsdorfer , I. Chiorescu , R. Sessoli , D. Gatteschi , D. Mailly

Quantum simulation with controllable many-body platforms offers a powerful route to exploring complex phases and dynamics that are difficult to access in natural materials. Among these, topological spin textures such as skyrmions are…

We calculate the quantum tunneling rate of a ferromagnetic particle of $\sim 100 \AA$ diameter in a magnetic field of arbitrary angle. We consider the magnetocrystalline anisotropy with the biaxial symmetry and that with the tetragonal…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 Gwang-Hee Kim , Dae Sung Hwang

Quantum spin tunneling (QST) and Kondo effect are two very different quantum phenomena that produce the same effect on quantized spins, namely, the quenching of their magnetization. However, the nature of this quenching is very different so…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-05 D. Jacob , J. Fernández-Rossier

The electric control of quantum spin chains has been an outstanding goal for the few last years due to its potential use in technologies related to quantum information processing. In this work, we show the feasibility of the different steps…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-14 Diego Acosta Coden , Omar Osenda , Alejandro Ferrón

A numerical simulation of spin-dependent quantum transport for a spin field effect transistor (spinFET) is implemented in a widely used simulator nanoMOS. This method includes the effect of both spin relaxation in the channel and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Yunfei Gao , Tony Low , Mark S. Lundstrom , Dmitri E. Nikonov

The tunneling effect is the most popular phenomenon of quantum physics and is present in modern physical theories. Still, the most important features of this effect are already present in toy models - low dimensional quantum mechanics with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-02-07 Zbigniew Ambrozinski

Quantum (step-like) magnetization curves are studies for a spin pair with antiferromagnetic coupling in the presence of a magnetic field parallel to the easy axis of the magnetic anisotropy. The consideration is done both analytically and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 B. A. Ivanov , V. E. Kireev

Magnetic skyrmions are localized nanometric spin textures with quantized winding numbers as the topological invariant. Rapidly increasing attention has been paid to the investigations of skyrmions since their experimental discovery in 2009,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-07-31 Ping Huang , Marco Cantoni , Alex Kruchkov , Rajeswari Jayaraman , Arnaud Magrez , Fabrizio Carbone , Henrik M. Ronnow

Quantum skyrmionic phase is modelled in a 2D helical spin lattice. This topological skyrmionic phase retains its nature in a large parameter space before moving to a ferromagnetic phase. Next nearest-neighbour interaction improves the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-04-18 Vipin Vijayan , L. Chotorlishvili , A. Ernst , S. S. P. Parkin , M. I. Katsnelson , S. K. Mishra

We derive a semiclassical quantization for a spin, study it for not too small a spin quantum number (S>5), and compute the 2S+1 eigenvalues of a Hamiltonian exhibiting resonant tunnelling as the magnetic field parallel to the anisotropy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. L. van Hemmen , A. Suto