Suppression of tunneling by interference in half-integer-spin particles

Daniel Loss; David P. DiVincenzo; G. Grinstein

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.69.3232

Suppression of tunneling by interference in half-integer-spin particles

Daniel Loss^*
, David P. DiVincenzo
, G. Grinstein

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3232-3235
Number of pages	4
Journal	Physical Review Letters
Volume	69
Issue number	22
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.69.3232
State	Published - 1992
Externally published	Yes

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