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We provide evidence for spin glass related magnetic gaps in the fermionic density of states below the freezing temperature. Model calculations are presented and proposed to be relevant for explaining resistivity measurements which observe a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-30 R. Oppermann , B. Rosenow

Motivated by the recent experiments of Amasha {\it et al.} [Phys. Rev. B {\bf 78}, 041306(R) (2008)], we investigate single electron tunneling into an empty quantum dot in presence of a magnetic field. We numerically calculate the tunneling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-28 Peter Stano , Philippe Jacquod

The two-dimensional backward Fokker-Planck equation is used to calculate the mean first-passage times (MFPTs) of the magnetic moment of a nanoparticle driven by a rotating magnetic field. It is shown that a magnetic field that is rapidly…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-16 S. I. Denisov , K. Sakmann , P. Talkner , P. Hänggi

In the present paper we study the spontaneous photon emission due to a magnetic spin-flip transition of a two-level atom in the vicinity of a dielectric body like a normal conducting metal or a superconductor. For temperatures below the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Bo-Sture K. Skagerstam , Per Kristian Rekdal

We report a simulation study on the narrow escape kinetics of a Chiral Active Particle (CAP) confined to a circular domain with a narrow escape opening. The studys main objective is to optimize the CAPs escape changes as a function of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-12-05 Alakesh Upadhyaya , Venkata Sathish Akella

Adsorption to a surface, reversible-binding, and trapping are all prevalent scenarios where particles exhibit "stickiness". Escape and first-passage times are known to be drastically affected, but detailed understanding of this phenomenon…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-12-06 Yuval Scher , Shlomi Reuveni , Denis S. Grebenkov

The longitudinal and transverse nuclear magnetic relaxation rates $1/T_1(T)$ and $1/T_2(T)$ are calculated for three- and two-dimensional (3D and 2D) metallic ferro- and antiferromagnets (FM and AFM) with localized magnetic moments in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 V. Yu. Irkhin , M. I. Katsnelson

Topological states of matter present a wide variety of striking new phenomena. Prominent among these is the fractionalisation of electrons into unusual particles: Majorana fermions [1], Laughlin quasiparticles [2] or magnetic monopoles [3].…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-05-26 J. Knolle , D. L. Kovrizhin , J. T. Chalker , R. Moessner

We study the magnetization process of the spin-$1/2$ Heisenberg antiferromagnet on a distorted square-kagome lattice by the numerical-diagonalization method. The magnetization jump at one-third of the height of the saturation is examined in…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-10-09 Hiroki Nakano , Yasumasa Hasegawa , Toru Sakai

We present a theoretical investigation of coherent dynamics of a spin qubit encoded in hyperfine sublevels of an alkali-metal atom in a far off-resonant optical dipole trap. The qubit is prepared in the "clock transition" utilizing the…

When a large number N of independent diffusing particles are placed upon a site of a d-dimensional Euclidean lattice randomly occupied by a concentration c of traps, what is the m-th moment <t^m_{j,N}> of the time t_{j,N} elapsed until the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Santos B. Yuste , Luis Acedo

The problem of escape of a Brownian particle in a cusp-shaped metastable potential is of special importance in nonadiabatic and weakly-adiabatic rate theory for electron transfer (ET) reactions. Especially, for the weakly-adiabatic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Bartlomiej Dybiec , Ewa Gudowska-Nowak , Pawel F. Gora

In a time-orbiting-potential magnetic trap the neutral atoms are confined by means of an inhomogeneous magnetic field superimposed to an uniform rotating one. We perform an analytic study of the atomic motion by taking into account the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Roberto Franzosi , Andrea Spinelli , Bruno Zambon , Ennio Arimondo

A simple expression for the conductance steps in the inelastic electron tunneling from spin excitations in a single magnetic atom adsorbed on a non-magnetic metal surfaces is derived. The inelastic coupling between the tunneling electron…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-05-29 Mats Persson

We develop novel numerical methods and perturbation approaches to determine the mean first passage time (MFPT) for a Brownian particle to be captured by either small stationary or mobile traps inside a bounded 2-D confining domain. Of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-20 Sarafa Iyaniwura , Tony Wong , Michael J. Ward , Colin B. Macdonald

The mean first passage time (MFPT) for a Brownian particle to reach a small target in cellular microdomains is a key parameter for chemical activation. Although asymptotic estimations of the MFPT are available for various geometries, these…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2015-03-19 Juergen Reingruber , David Holcman

The stochastic motion of particles in living cells is often spatially inhomogeneous with a higher effective diffusivity in a region close to the cell boundary due to active transport along actin filaments. As a first step to understand the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-09-25 Matthieu Mangeat , Heiko Rieger

The nonintegrable Hamiltonian dynamics of particles placed in a symmetric, spatially periodic potential and subjected to a periodically varying field is explored. Such systems can exhibit a rich diversity of unusual transport features. In…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2008-07-10 D. Hennig , L. Schimansky-Geier , P. Hänggi

A few 85Rb atoms were trapped in a micron-size magneto-optical trap with a high quadrupole magnetic-field gradient and the number of atoms was precisely controlled by suppressing stochastic loading and loss events via real-time feedback on…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Seokchan Yoon , Youngwoon Choi , Sangbum Park , Jaisoon Kim , Jai-Hyung Lee , Kyungwon An

We study metastability and nucleation for the Blume-Capel model: a ferromagnetic nearest neighbour two-dimensional lattice system with spin variables taking values in -1,0,+1. We consider large but finite volume, small fixed magnetic field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Emilio N. M. Cirillo , Enzo Olivieri