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We study the model of a biaxial single ferromagnetic spin Hamiltonian with an external magnetic field applied along the medium axis. The phase transition of the escape rate is investigated. Two different but equivalent methods are…
We investigate the escape rate of the biaxial nanospin particle with a magnetic field applied along the easy axis. The model studied here is described by the Hamiltonian ${\cal H} = -AS_z^2 - BS_x^2 - HS_z, (A>B>0)$. By reducing this…
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…
Employing the method of mapping the spin problem onto a particle one, we have derived the particle Hamiltonian for a biaxial spin system with a transverse or longitudinal magnetic field. Using the Hamiltonian and introducing the parameter…
We have investigated the escape rate of the nanospin particle with a magnetic field applied along the easy axis. The model studied here is described by the Hamiltonian $\hat{\cal H} = K_1 \hat{S}_z^2 + K_2 \hat{S}_y^2 + g\mu_b H \hat{S}_x…
The quantum-classical transitions of the escape rates in a uniaxial spin model relevant to the molecular magnet Mn$_{12}$Ac and a biaxial anisotropic ferromagnetic particle are investigated by applying the periodic instanton method. The…
Quantum-classical escape rate transition has been studied for uniaxial antiferromagnetic particles with an arbitrarily directed magnetic field. In the case that the transverse and longitudinal fileds coexist, we calculate the phase boundary…
The escape rate \Gamma of the large-spin model described by the Hamiltonian H = -DS_z^2 - H_zS_z - H_xS_x is investigated with the help of the mapping onto a particle moving in a double-well potential U(x). The transition-state method…
The quantum-classical transition of the escape rate of the spin model \cal H= -DS_z^2 - H_zS_z + B S_x^2 is investigated by a perturbative approach with respect to B [D. A. Garanin, J. Phys A {\bf 24}, L61 (1991)]. The transition is first…
We have found a novel feature of the bistable large-spin model described by the Hamiltonian H = -DS_z^2 - H_xS_x.The crossover from thermal to quantum regime for the escape rate can be either first (H_x<SD/2) or second (SD/2<H_x<2SD) order,…
This article presents a review on the theoretical and the experimental developments on macroscopic quantum tunneling and phase transition of the escape rate in spin systems. We present the basic ideas with simplified calculations so that it…
We have studied numerically the quantum-classical crossover in the escape-rate for an uniaxial spin system with an arbitrarily directed field. Using the simple quantum transition-state theory, we have obtained the boundary separating the…
We study quantum-classical escape-rate transitions for uniaxial and biaxial models with finite spins S=10 (such as Mn_12Ac and Fe_8) and S=100 by a direct numerical approach. At second-order transitions the level making a dominant…
Classical escape rates of uniaxial spin systems are characterized by a prefactor differing from and much smaller than that of the particle problem, since the maximum of the spin energy is attained everywhere on the line of constant…
The point-particle-like Hamiltonian of a biaxial spin particle with external magnetic field along the hard axis is obtained in terms of the potential field description of spin systems with exact spin-coordinate correspondence. The Zeeman…
We use an effective Hamiltonian to characterize particle dynamics and find escape rates in a periodically kicked Hamiltonian. We study a model of particles in storage rings that is described by a chaotic symplectic map. Ignoring the…
Transitions from classical to quantum behaviour in a spin system with two degenerate ground states separated by twin energy barriers which are asymmetric due to an applied magnetic field are investigated. It is shown that these transitions…
Some models allowing explicit calculation of periodic instantons and evaluation of their action are studied with regard to transitions from classical to quantum behaviour as the temperature is lowered and tunneling sets in. It is shown that…
A variational approach based on Bogoliubov inequality for the free energy is employed in order to treat the quantum spin-$1$ anisotropic ferromagnetic Heisenberg model in the presence of a crystal field. Within the Bogoliubov scheme an…
Quantum-classical escape-rate transition has been studied for two general forms of magnetic anisotropy in ferrimagnetic or antiferromagnetic particles. It is found that the range of the first-order transition is greatly reduced as the…