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The orbital magnetic moment is usually associated with the relativistic spin-orbit interaction, but recently it has been shown that noncollinear magnetic structures can also be its driving force. This is important not only for magnetic…

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A molecular rotor mechanism is proposed to explain weak magnetic field effects in biology. Despite being nanoscale (1 nm), this rotor exhibits quantum superposition and interference. Analytical modeling shows its quantum dynamics are highly…

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Time crystals, a unique non-equilibrium quantum phenomenon with promising applications in current quantum technologies, mark a significant advance in quantum mechanics. Although traditionally studied in atom-cavity and optical lattice…

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I give a theoretical overview of magnetic monopoles, focusing on the physical perspective of monopoles as hypothetical particles rather than as mathematical objects. I argue that monopoles are exceptionally interesting hypothetical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-11 Arttu Rajantie

The performance characteristics of magnetic nanoparticles towards application, e.g. in medicine, imaging, or as sensors, is directly determined by their magnetization relaxation and total magnetic moment. In the commonly assumed picture,…

We measure the dynamical behavior of colloidal singlets and dumbbells on an inclined magnetic moir\'e pattern, subject to a precessing external homogeneous magnetic field. At low external field strength single colloidal particles and…

The demand for high-density storage is urgent in the current era of data explosion. Recently, several single-molecule (-atom) magnets/ferroelectrics have been reported to be promising candidates for high-density storage. As another…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-11-02 Yali Yang , Liangliang Hong , Laurent Bellaiche , Hongjun Xiang

Using the semiclassical theory of electron dynamics, we derive a gauge-invariant expression for the spin toroidization in a periodical crystal. We show that the spin toroidization is comprised of two contributions: one is due to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-02 Yang Gao , David Vanderbilt , Di Xiao

Molecular spintronics is recognized to as an attractive new research direction in a field of spintronics, following to metallic spintronics and inorganic semiconductor spintronics, and attracts many people in recent decades. The purpose of…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-27 Masashi Shiraishi , Tadaaki Ikoma

Recently it was proposed that the constituent quark is a topological soliton. I investigate this soliton, calculating its mass, radius, magnetic moment, color magnetic moment, and spin structure function. Within the approximations used, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 Gregory Keaton

Magnetic anisotropy is one of the important factors in determining magnetic structures. A type of magnetic anisotropy is closely related to the symmetry of crystals. We theoretically investigate magnetic anisotropy and its related magnetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-05-22 Akane Inda , Satoru Hayami

Two-dimensional colloidal suspensions exposed to periodic external fields exhibit a variety of molecular crystalline phases. There two or more colloids assemble at lattice sites of potential minima to build new structural entities, referred…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Andreja Sarlah , Erwin Frey , Thomas Franosch

Ferroic multipole orders break some symmetry and often activate unique physical properties, such as nonreciprocal directional dichroism and linear magnetoelectric effects. Here, we demonstrate the control of magnetic toroidal orientation in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-02 Shungo Aoyagi , Shunsuke Kitou , Taka-hisa Arima , Yusuke Tokunaga

Two-state systems may exhibit mechanical forces of purely quantum origin that have no counterpart in classical physics. We show that the such forces must exist in molecular magnets due to quantum tunneling between classically degenerate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Eugene M. Chudnovsky , Javier Tejada , Ricardo Zarzuela

Molecular nanomagnets are compounds characterized by a high-spin magnetic core that is protected by organic ligands. They have recently gained attention as potential quantum information carriers in solid-state quantum computing platforms,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Alessandra Cammarata , Steve Campbell , Mauro Paternostro

The representation of magnetic field as a sum of a toroidal field and a poloidal field has not rarely been used in astrophysics, particularly in relation to stellar and planetary magnetism. In this representation, each toroidal field line…

Classical Physics · Physics 2022-04-05 Sibaek Yi , G. S. Choe

How stochastic, microscopic events generate deterministic, macroscopic properties is a fundamental question in physics. We address this question by developing a quantum master equation model for concentrated radical solutions, where random…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Yoshiaki Uchida , Ryohei Kishi

Spintronics is the ability of injecting, manipulating and detecting electron spins into solid state systems. Molecular-electronics investigates the possibility of making electronic devices using organic molecules. Traditionally these two…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Stefano Sanvito , Alexandre Reily Rocha

Magnetic droplet solitons are dynamical magnetic textures that form due to an attractive interaction between spin waves in thin films with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy. Spin currents and the spin torques associated with these currents…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-10 Ferran Macià , Andrew D. Kent

The relativistic and quantum theoretical explanations of the magnetic moment anomaly of the electron (or proton) show that it is a complicated function of the fine structure constant. In this work, a simple non-relativistic approach shows…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Raji Heyrovska