arXiv · cond-mat/9904323
Deceptive Apparent Nonadiabatic Magnetization Process
Abstract
We discuss the effect of the thermal environment on the low-temperature response of the magnetization of uniaxial magnets to a time-dependent applied magnetic field. At sufficiently low temperatures the staircase magnetization curves observed in molecular magnets such as Mn_{12} and Fe_8 display little temperature dependence. However the changes of the magnetization at each step do not seem to be directly related to the probability for a quantum mechanical nonadiabatic transition. In order to explain this deceptive apparent nonadiabatic behavior, we study the quantum dynamics of the system in a thermal environment and propose a relation between the observed magnetization steps and the quantum mechanical transition probability due to the nonadiabatic transition.
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K. Saito, S. Miyashita, H. De Raedt. 1999-06-12. Deceptive Apparent Nonadiabatic Magnetization Process. https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9904323
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