315 research outputs found
Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling in Small Antiferromagnetic Particles: Effects of a Strong Magnetic Field
We consider an effect of a strong magnetic field on the ground state and
macroscopic coherent tunneling in small antiferromagnetic particles with
uniaxial and biaxial single-ion anisotropy. We find several tunneling regimes
that depend on the direction of the magnetic field with respect to the
anisotropy axes. For the case of a purely uniaxial symmetry and the field
directed along the easy axis, an exact instanton solution with two different
scales in imaginary time is constructed. For a rhombic anisotropy the effect of
the field strongly depends on its orientation: with the field increasing, the
tunneling rate increases or decreases for the field parallel to the easy or
medium axis, respectively. The analytical results are complemented by numerical
simulations.Comment: 11 pages, 6 figure
Macroscopic Quantum Coherence in Small Antiferromagnetic Particle and the Quantum Interference Effects
Starting from the Hamiltonian operator of the noncompensated two-sublattice
model of a small antiferromagnetic particle, we derive the effective Lagrangian
of a biaxial antiferromagnetic particle in an external magnetic field with the
help of spin-coherent-state path integrals. Two unequal level-shifts induced by
tunneling through two types of barriers are obtained using the instanton
method. The energy spectrum is found from Bloch theory regarding the periodic
potential as a superlattice. The external magnetic field indeed removes
Kramers' degeneracy, however a new quenching of the energy splitting depending
on the applied magnetic field is observed for both integer and half-integer
spins due to the quantum interference between transitions through two types of
barriers.Comment: 9 pages, Latex, 4 Postscript figure
Decoherence of a Superposition of Macroscopic Current States in a SQUID
We show that fundamental conservation laws mandate parameter-free mechanisms
of decoherence of quantum oscillations of the superconducting current between
opposite directions in a SQUID -- emission of phonons and photons at the
oscillation frequency. The corresponding rates are computed and compared with
experimental findings. The decohering effects of external mechanical and
magnetic noise are investigated
Fatigue crack layer propagation in silicon-iron
Fatigue crack propagation in metal is almost always accompanied by plastic deformation unless conditions strongly favor brittle fracture. The analysis of the plastic zone is crucial to the understanding of crack propagation behavior as it governs the crack growth kinetics. This research was undertaken to study the fatigue crack propagation in a silicon iron alloy. Kinetic and plasticity aspects of fatigue crack propagation in the alloy were obtained, including the characterization of damage evolution
Quantum dynamics of crystals of molecular nanomagnets inside a resonant cavity
It is shown that crystals of molecular nanomagnets exhibit enhanced magnetic
relaxation when placed inside a resonant cavity. Strong dependence of the
magnetization curve on the geometry of the cavity has been observed, providing
evidence of the coherent microwave radiation by the crystals. A similar
dependence has been found for a crystal placed between Fabry-Perot
superconducting mirrors. These observations open the possibility of building a
nanomagnetic microwave laser pumped by the magnetic field
Quantum statistical metastability for a finite spin
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
contribution into thermally assisted tunneling changes gradually with
temperature whereas at first-order transitions a group of levels is skipped.
For finite spins, the quasiclassical boundaries between first- and second-order
transitions are shifted, favoring a second-order transition: For Fe_8 in zero
field the transition should be first order according to a theory with S \to
\infty, but we show that there are no skipped levels at the transition.
Applying a field along the hard axis in Fe_8 makes transition the strongest
first order. For the same model with S=100 we confirmed the existence of a
region where a second-order transition is followed by a first-order transition
[X. Martines Hidalgo and E. M. Chudnovsky, J. Phys.: Condensed Matter (in
press)].Comment: 7 Phys. Rev. pages, 10 figures, submitted to PR
A fast algorithm to remove proper and homogeneous pairs of cliques (while preserving some graph invariants)
Polynomial kernelization for removing induced claws and diamonds
A graph is called (claw,diamond)-free if it contains neither a claw (a
) nor a diamond (a with an edge removed) as an induced subgraph.
Equivalently, (claw,diamond)-free graphs can be characterized as line graphs of
triangle-free graphs, or as linear dominoes, i.e., graphs in which every vertex
is in at most two maximal cliques and every edge is in exactly one maximal
clique.
In this paper we consider the parameterized complexity of the
(claw,diamond)-free Edge Deletion problem, where given a graph and a
parameter , the question is whether one can remove at most edges from
to obtain a (claw,diamond)-free graph. Our main result is that this problem
admits a polynomial kernel. We complement this finding by proving that, even on
instances with maximum degree , the problem is NP-complete and cannot be
solved in time unless the Exponential Time
Hypothesis fai
Low temperature microwave emission from molecular clusters
We investigate the experimental detection of the electromagnetic radiation
generated in the fast magnetization reversal in Mn12-acetate at low
temperatures. In our experiments we used large single crystals and assemblies
of several small single crystals of Mn12-acetate placed inside a cylindrical
stainless steel waveguide in which an InSb hot electron device was also placed
to detect the radiation. All this was set inside a SQUID magnetometer that
allowed to change the magnetic field and measure the magnetic moment and the
temperature of the sample as the InSb detected simultaneously the radiation
emitted from the molecular magnets. Our data show a sequential process in which
the fast inversion of the magnetic moment first occurs, then the radiation is
detected by the InSb device, and finally the temperature of the sample
increases during 15 ms to subsequently recover its original value in several
hundreds of milliseconds.Comment: changed conten
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