Published January 20, 2006 | Version v1
Journal article

Instantons and phase transition in quantum interference

Creators

  • 1. Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100039 (China)
  • 2. Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100080 (China)

Description

In the biaxial nanospin system, quantum tunnelling of the magnetization vector oscillates with increasing magnetic field or temperature. When the number of instanons is equal to the number of anti-instantons, the annihilation of instanton-anti-instanton pair results in a vanished Berry curvature, it leads to the topological quenching point. When the number of instantons and anti-instantons is not equal, berry curvature is nonzero, this suggests that there are extra instantons that revive the tunnelling splitting. So the generation (annihilation) of instanton induced the revival (quenching) of tunnel splitting. This generation or annihilation is accompanied by different phase transitions which can be distinguished by (H/Hc)/((1-K2)/K1). When the system slides from the phase of H/Hc < 1 - K2/K1 into the phase of H/Hc > 1 - K2/K1, an instanton will be generated (annihilated), which revives (quenches) the quantum tunnelling. This conclusion also holds when phase transition occurs in the opposite direction, i.e., from H/Hc > 1 - K2/K1 to H/Hc < 1 - K2/K1. So there is a phase transition that occurs alternatively in the magnetic molecule system when the topological quenching of the tunnel splitting occurs quasi-periodically

Availability note (English)

Available online at http://stacks.iop.org/0305-4470/39/637/a6_3_014.pdf or at the Web site for the Journal of Physics. A, Mathematical and General (ISSN 1361-6447) http://www.iop.org/

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Physics. A, Mathematical and General
Journal Volume
39
Journal Issue
3
Journal Page Range
p. 637-647
ISSN
0305-4470
CODEN
JPHAC5

INIS

Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
37051491
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
ANNIHILATION; INSTANTONS; INTERFERENCE; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIZATION; MATHEMATICAL LOGIC; PERIODICITY; PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS; QUANTUM MECHANICS; TOPOLOGY; TUNNEL EFFECT; VECTORS
Descriptors DEC
INTERACTIONS; MATHEMATICS; MECHANICS; PARTICLE INTERACTIONS; QUASI PARTICLES; TENSORS; VARIATIONS