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/Additional details
Identifiers
- URL
- http://stacks.iop.org/0305-4470/39/637/a6_3_014.pdf;
- DOI
- 10.1088/0305-4470/39/3/014;
- PII
- S0305-4470(06)08053-X;
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