Year: 2001
Type: article
Abstract: Motivated by the experimental observation of resonant tunneling in systems of half-integer spin, such as V15 and Mn4, we study the mechanism of the adiabatic change of the magnetization in systems with time-reversal symmetry. Although tunneling between the degenerate ground states is suppressed in a simple Kramers doublet, some types of perturbational interactions cause an avoided level crossing structure in the energy level structures when the system possesses additional degeneracy of the ground state. We show that a nonadiabatic transition governed by the Landau-Zener-Stückelberg mechanism occurs in many cases, and also find more general cases of adiabatic change of the magnetization in which LZS mechanism cannot be applied directly.
Source: Progress of Theoretical Physics
DOI: 10.1143/ptp.106.533
Authors: S. Miyashita, N. Nagaosa
Institution: The University of Tokyo
Language: English
Subfield: Condensed Matter Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2106198544