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We present the results of muon-spin relaxation measurements on the triangular lattice Heisenberg antiferromagnet $\alpha$-KCrO$_{2}$. We observe sharp changes in behaviour at an ordering temperature of $T_{\mathrm{c}}=23$ K, with an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-06-12 F. Xiao , T. Lancaster , P. J. Baker , F. L. Pratt , S. J. Blundell , J. S. Möller , N. Z. Ali , M. Jansen

Spin-exchange collisions have been widely studied in recent years, and various quantum-mechanical scattering approaches have been developed to calculate the rates. However, these methods based on global knowledge of wavefunctions can be…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-01-28 Debaarjun Mukherjee , Jeremy O. Richardson

Spin semimetals are a recently discovered new class of spintronic materials, which exhibit a band gap in one spin channel while a semimetallic feature in the other and thus allows for tunable spin transport. Here, we present experimental…

Materials able to rapidly switch between thermally conductive states by external stimuli such as electric or magnetic fields can be used as all-solid-state thermal switches and open a myriad of applications in heat management, power…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-03-06 Karl G. Koster , Jackson Hise , Joseph P. Heremans , Joshua E. Goldberger

We present a quantitative analysis of an escape rate for switching from the superconducting state to a resistive one in series arrays of globally coupled Josephson junctions. A global coupling is provided by an external shunting impedance.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-25 M. V. Fistul

We report on muon-spin rotation/relaxation (\muSR), electrical resistivity, magnetization and differential scanning calorimetry measurements performed on a high-quality single crystal of Cs_0.8(FeSe_0.98)_2. Whereas our transport and…

Extensive work on single molecule magnets has identified a fundamental mode of relaxation arising from the nuclear-spin assisted quantum tunnelling of nearly independent and quasi-classical magnetic dipoles. Here we show that nuclear-spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-03-28 C. Paulsen , S. R. Giblin , E. Lhotel , D. Prabhakaran , K. Matsuhira , G. Balakrishnan , S. T. Bramwell

We derive a spin-orbital Hamiltonian for a triangular lattice of e_g orbital degenerate (Ni^{3+}) transition metal ions interacting via 90 degree superexchange involving (O^{2-}) anions, taking into account the on-site Coulomb interactions…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 Albert J. W. Reitsma , Louis F. Feiner , Andrzej M. Oles'

In this study, we have studied the quantum tunneling of a single spin-orbit-coupled atom held in a periodically modulated optical lattice with an impurity. At the pseudocollapse points of quasienergy bands, where the dynamical localization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 Xiaobing Luo , Baiyuan Yang , Jin Cui , Yu Guo , Lei Li , Qianglin Hu

We study the phenomenon of macroscopic quantum tunneling (MQT) in a finite size Josephson junction (JJ) with an externally applied magnetic field. As it is well known, the problem of MQT in a point-like JJ is reduced to the study of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2008-07-18 Yu. N. Ovchinnikov , A. Barone , A. A. Varlamov

Temperature dependence of the tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) was calculated in range of the quantum-ballistic model in the magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) with embedded nanoparticles (NPs). The electron tunnel transport through NP was…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-28 Arthur Useinov , Chih-Huang Lai

Electrons in a two-dimensional semiconducting heterostructure interact with nuclear spins via the hyperfine interaction. Using a a Kondo lattice formulation of the electron-nuclear spin interaction, we show that the nuclear spin system…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-25 Pascal Simon , Daniel Loss

We review the present state of theory and experiments on the quantum tunneling of magnetization in mesoscopic spin systems. Most attention is paid to the relaxation of magnetization in the molecular complexes Mn12 and Fe8. The role of the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Igor Tupitsyn , Bernard Barbara

To study non-Heisenberg effects in the vicinity of spin crossover in strongly correlated electron systems we derive an effective low-energy Hamiltonian for the two-band Kanamori model. It contains Heisenberg high-spin term proportional to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-10-22 V. I. Kuz'min , Yu. S. Orlov , A. E. Zarubin , T. M. Ovchinnikova , S. G. Ovchinnikov

We investigate the spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model with a Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction on kagome lattice, making use of the variational Monte Carlo technique. An exotic quantum spin state is found to arise from a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-09-16 Li-Wei He , Jian-Xin Li

The reversal of the magnetization of crystals of molecular magnets that have a large spin and high anisotropy barrier generally proceeds below the blocking temperature by quantum tunneling. This is manifested as a series of controlled steps…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-21 Myriam P. Sarachik

Atoms confined in a magnetic trap can escape by making spin-flip Majorana transitions due to a breakdown of the adiabatic approximation. Several papers have studied this process for atoms with spin $F = 1/2$ or $F= 1$. The present paper…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. M. Brink , C. V. Sukumar

Two dimensional systems with U(1) symmetry exhibit a peculiar phase, i.e., the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) phase. In particular situations, the BKT phase exists as an intermediate temperature phase. There have been scenarios for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-11-10 Masamichi Nishino , Seiji Miyashita

We investigate the escape rate of a biaxial spin particle with an arbitrarily dierected magnetic field in the easy plane, described by Hamiltonian ${\cal H} = -AS_z^2 - BS_x^2 -H_x S_x -H_z S_z, (A>B>0)$. We derive an effective particle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Chang-Soo Park , Sahng-Kyoon Yoo , Dal-Ho Yoon

Muon spin relaxation experiments have been carried out in the Kondo compound PrInAg_2. The zero-field muon relaxation rate is found to be independent of temperature between 0.1 and 10 K, which rules out a magnetic origin (spin freezing or a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-08-17 D. E. MacLaughlin , R. H. Heffner , G. J. Nieuwenhuys , P. C. Canfield , A. Amato , C. Baines , A. Schenck , G. M. Luke , Y. Fudamoto , Y. J. Uemura