SUPPRESSION OF TUNNELING BY INTERFERENCE IN HALF-INTEGER-SPIN PARTICLES

被引:288
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作者
LOSS, D
DIVINCENZO, DP
GRINSTEIN, G
机构
[1] IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.69.3232
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
Within a wide class of ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic systems, quantum tunneling of magnetization direction is spin-parity dependent: it vanishes for magnetic particles with half-integer spin, but is allowed for integer spin. A coherent-state path-integral calculation shows that this topological effect results from interference between tunneling paths.
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页码:3232 / 3235
页数:4
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