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The time evolution of low energy spin states of a single molecular magnet in a local electric field is investigated. The decoherence of the driven single molecular magnet weakly coupled to a thermal bosonic environment is analyzed by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-08-09 Xiang Hao , Chen Liu , Shiqun Zhu

Spins are prototypical systems with the potential to probe magnetic fields down to the atomic scale limit. Exploiting their quantum nature through appropriate sensing protocols allows to enlarge their applicability to fields not always…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-26 Claudio Bonizzoni , Alberto Ghirri , Fabio Santanni , Marco Affronte

Spin squeezing generated via inter-atom entanglement in multilevel atomic ensembles provides a powerful resource for quantum-enhanced metrology. Existing schemes that harness internal atomic degrees of freedom to boost squeezing typically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-18 Zhiwei Hu , Youwei Zhang , Junlei Duan , Mingfeng Wang , Yanhong Xiao

Understanding the spin-relaxation mechanism of single adatoms is an essential step towards creating atomic magnetic memory bits or even qubits. Here we present an essentially parameter-free theory by combining \textit{ab-initio} electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-26 Haritz Garai-Marin , Manuel dos Santos Dias , Samir Lounis , Julen Ibañez-Azpiroz , Asier Eiguren

This article takes a broad view of the understanding of magnetic bistability and magnetic quantum tunneling in single-molecule magnets (SMMs), focusing on three families of relatively simple, low-nuclearity transition metal clusters: spin S…

In this paper we show how the IBM superconducting chips can be a powerful tool for teaching foundations of quantum mechanics for undergraduate students (for graduates as well, in some cases). To this end, we briefly discuss about the main…

Physics Education · Physics 2020-02-21 Émerson M. Alves , Francisco D. S. Gomes , Hércules S. Santana , Alan C. Santos

The realization of electron-spin resonance at the single-atom level using scanning tunneling microscopy has opened new avenues for coherent quantum sensing and quantum state manipulation at the ultimate size limit. This allows to build…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-10 Jose Reina-Gálvez , Hoang-Anh Le , Hong Thi Bui , Soo-hyon Phark , Nicolás Lorente , Christoph Wolf

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are a highly tunable class of crystalline materials where metal atoms or clusters are connected by organic linkers. They offer a versatile platform for exploring quantum phenomena such as entangled magnetism,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-25 Natalia Drichko , V. Sara Thoi , N. Peter Armitage

Magnetic hysteresis has become a crucial aspect for characterizing single-molecule magnets, but the comprehension of the coercivity mechanism is still a challenge. By using analytical derivation and quantum dynamical simulations, we reveal…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-09-08 Lei Gu , Qiancheng Luo , Guoping Zhao , Yan-Zhen Zheng , Ruqian Wu

Spin resonance of single spin centers bears great potential for chemical structure analysis, quantum sensing and quantum coherent manipulation. Essential for these experiments is the presence of a two-level spin system whose energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Philip Willke , Aparajita Singha , Xue Zhang , Taner Esat , Christopher P. Lutz , Andreas J. Heinrich , Taeyoung Choi

Molecular nanomagnets show clear signatures of coherent behavior and have a wide variety of effective low-energy spin Hamiltonians suitable for encoding qubits and implementing spin-based quantum information processing. At the nanoscale,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Mircea Trif , Filippo Troiani , Dimitrije Stepanenko , Daniel Loss

System consisting of a number of trapped atoms evolving under the influence of external inhomogenous magnetic field undergoes spin dephasing: classically, since each atom feels different field along its trajectory, the spin rotation rates…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-05 Konrad Szymański , Krzysztof Pawłowski

Spin-orbit interaction is an important vehicle for spin relaxation. At finite temperature lattice vibrations modulate the spin-orbit interaction and thus generate a mechanism for spin-phonon coupling, which needs to be incorporated in any…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-09-26 Subhayan Roychoudhury , Stefano Sanvito

We investigate the quantum evolution of spin states of a single molecular magnet in a local electric field. The decoherence of a $\texttt{\{}\emph{Cu}_3\texttt{\}}$ single molecular magnet weakly coupled to a thermal bosonic environment can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Xiang Hao , Xiaoqun Wang , Chen Liu , Shiqun Zhu

We demonstrate a new mechanical transduction platform for individual spin qubits. In our approach, single micro-magnets are trapped using a type-II superconductor in proximity of spin qubits, enabling direct magnetic coupling between the…

The role of spin polarized reservoirs in quantum tunneling of magnetization and relaxation processes in a single molecular magnet (SMM) is investigated theoretically. The SMM is exchange-coupled to the reservoirs and also subjected to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-16 Maciej Misiorny , Józef Barnas

The manipulation of single spins through spin-polarized tunneling opens new routes for quantum control at the atomic scale. We present a theoretical framework describing spin-transfer, spin torques and spin resonance in molecular quantum…

We study theoretically spin transport through a single-molecule magnet (SMM) in the sequential and cotunneling regimes, where the SMM is weakly coupled to one ferromagnetic and one normalmetallic leads. By a master-equation approach, it is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-19 Haiqing Xie , Fuming Xu , Hujun Jiao , Qiang Wang , J. -Q. Liang

The investigation on significantly enhancing the coupling to NV centers at single-quanta level is of great key point to further explore its application in quantum information processing (QIP). We here study a joint scheme to further enhance…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-30 Yuan Zhou , Xin-Ke Li , Dong-Yan Lv , Yong-Chen Xiong , Hai-Ming Huang , Chang-Sheng Hu

Quantum entanglement, in the form of spin squeezing, is known to improve the sensitivity of atomic sensors to static or slowly varying fields. Sensing transient events presents a distinct challenge, requires different analysis tools, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-08 Julia Amoros-Binefa