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Time-dependent spin phenomena in condensed matter are most often either described in the weakly correlated limit of metallic Stoner/Slater-like magnetism via band theory or in the strongly correlated limit of Heisenberg-like interacting…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-10-14 Malte Behrmann , Alexander I. Lichtenstein , Mikhail I. Katsnelson , Frank Lechermann

Entangled states with a large number of $N$ atomic spins are a key ingredient for quantum information processing and quantum metrology. Nowadays, the preparation of such states has mainly relied on the quadratic nonlinear dynamics. Here, we…

Achieving long-range ferrimagnetic order in purely organic systems remains a major challenge in molecular magnetism. Here we report the synthesis and characterization of heterospin-coupling motifs, formed by covalently linking spin-1/2 and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Elia Turco , Fupeng Wu , Annika Bernhardt , Nils Krane , Ji Ma , Roman Fasel , Michal Juriček , Xinliang Feng , Pascal Ruffieux

Periodically driven quantum many-body systems can spontaneously break discrete time-translation symmetry, realizing discrete time crystals. To date, both experimental and theoretical efforts have largely focused on the simplest case of…

Spin chains with open boundaries, such as the transverse field Ising model, can display coherence times for edge spins that diverge with the system size as a consequence of almost conserved operators, the so-called strong zero modes. Here,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-10-03 Loredana M. Vasiloiu , Federico Carollo , Juan P. Garrahan

The study of the decoherence of qubits in spin systems is almost restricted to environments whose constituents are spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ particles. In this paper we consider environments that are composed of particles of higher spin, and we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-08 Yamen Hamdouni

We study the dynamics of a single spin-1/2 coupled to a bath of spins-1/2 by inhomogeneous Heisenberg couplings including a central magnetic field. This central-spin model describes decoherence in quantum bit systems. An exact formula for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Michael Bortz , Joachim Stolze

Optically addressable spins are actively investigated in quantum communication, processing and sensing. Optical and spin coherence lifetimes, which determine quantum operation fidelity and storage time, are often limited by spin-spin…

We study discrete time-crystalline (DTC) phases in one-dimensional spin-1/2 chains with power-law-graded Ising interactions under periodic Floquet driving. By generalizing Stark localization to power-law-graded Ising interaction profiles,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Ayan Sahoo , Debraj Rakshit

A mechanism is advanced suggesting the resolution of the dichotomy of long-lived spin polarization storage versus fast spin reversal at the required time. A system of atoms or molecules is considered interacting through magnetic dipolar…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 V. I. Yukalov , E. P. Yukalova

Using one-dimensional spin-1/2 systems as prototypes of quantum many-body systems, we study the emergence of quantum chaos. The main purpose of this work is to answer the following question: how does the spin-orbit interaction, as a pure…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-02-01 J. Vahedi , A. Ashouri , S. Mahdavifar

We investigate creation, manipulation, and steering of entanglement in spin chains from the viewpoint of quantum communication between distant parties. We demonstrate how global parametric driving of the spin-spin coupling and/or local…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 F. Galve , D. Zueco , G. M. Reuther , S. Kohler , P. Hänggi

We show that the operators and the quadrupole and Zeeman Hamiltonians for a spin (3/2) can be represented in terms for a system of two coupling fictitious spins (1/2) using the Kronecker product of Pauli matrices. Particularly, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-11 G. B. Furman , V. M. Meerovich , V. L. Sokolovsky

Spin-1/2 Ising-Heisenberg model with XYZ Heisenberg pair interaction and two different Ising quartic interactions is exactly solved with the help of the generalized star-square transformation, which establishes a precise mapping equivalence…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-14 Jozef Strecka , Lucia Canova , Kazuhiko Minami

In this study, we propose a spin-star model for spin-(1/2) particles in order to examine the coherence dynamics of a quantum neural network (QNN) unit. Since quantum computing paradigm promises advantages over their classical counterparts,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-03 Deniz Türkpençe , Tahir Çetin Akıncı , Serhat Şeker

Results are presented for the nonequilibrium dynamics of a quantum $XXZ$-spin chain whose spins are initially arranged in a domain wall profile via the application of a magnetic field in the $z$-direction which is spatially varying along…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-18 Jarrett Lancaster , Aditi Mitra

We investigate how symmetries and conserved quantities relate to the occurrence of the boundary time crystal (BTC) phase in a generalized spin model with Lindblad dissipation. BTCs are a non-equilibrium phase of matter in which the system,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-21 Giulia Piccitto , Matteo Wauters , Franco Nori , Nathan Shammah

Spin models like the Heisenberg Hamiltonian effectively describe the interactions of open-shell transition-metal ions on a lattice and can account for various properties of magnetic solids and molecules. Numerical methods are usually…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-06-24 Shadan Ghassemi Tabrizi , Thomas D. Kühne

Ultra-cold alkali atoms trapped in two distinct hyperfine states in an external magnetic field can mimic magnetic systems of spin 1/2 particles. We describe the spin-dependent effective interaction as a spin-spin interaction. As a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-11-09 D. H. Santamore , Eddy Timmermans

Manipulation of spin states at the single-atom scale underlies spin-based quantum information processing and spintronic devices. Such applications require protection of the spin states against quantum decoherence due to interactions with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-13 Yujeong Bae , Kai Yang , Philip Willke , Taeyoung Choi , Andreas J. Heinrich , Christopher P. Lutz