Effects of nuclear spins on the quantum relaxation of the magnetization for the molecular nanomagnet Fe8

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 84, Issue 13, 2000, Pages

  Wernsdorfer, W ^a   Caneschi, A ^b   Sessoli, R ^b   Gatteschi, D ^b   Cornia, A ^c   Villar, V ^d   Paulsen, C ^d  

^a LABORATOIRE DE CRISTALLOGRAPHIE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^d CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOMAGNETS; NUCLEAR SPINS; QUANTUM PHENOMENA; QUANTUM RELAXATION;

FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; HAMILTONIANS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NEUTRON DIFFRACTION; QUANTUM THEORY; SINGLE CRYSTALS; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

IRON;

EID: 0000149550     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.2965     Document Type: Article

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