Heat capacity anomalies induced by magnetization quantum tunneling in a Mn12O12-acetate single crystal

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 79, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1126-1129

  Fominaya, F ^a   Villain, J ^a   Gandit, P ^a   Chaussy, J ^a   Caneschi, A ^b  

^a LABORATOIRE DE CRISTALLOGRAPHIE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALORIMETRY; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OXIDES; QUANTUM THEORY; RELAXATION PROCESSES; SINGLE CRYSTALS; THERMAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

HEAT RELAXATION; IRREVERSIBLE TUNNELING PROCESS; MAGNETIC QUANTUM NUMBER; MAGNETIZATION QUANTUM TUNNELING; REVERSIBLE RESONANT TUNNELING PROCESS;

SPECIFIC HEAT;

EID: 0031213122     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.79.1126     Document Type: Article

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