Crossover between thermally assisted and pure quantum tunneling in molecular magnet Mn12-acetate

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 22, 2000, Pages 4803-4806

  Bokacheva, Louisa ^a   Kent, Andrew D ^a   Walters, Marc A ^b  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ELECTRON TUNNELING; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETIC HYSTERESIS; MAGNETIC RELAXATION; MAGNETIZATION; MAGNETOMETERS; MANGANESE; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

MAGNETIZATION RELAXATION; MAGNETIZATION REVERSAL; MICRO HALL EFFECT MAGNETOMETRY; MOLECULAR MAGNET; QUANTUM TUNNELING; THERMALLY ASSISTED TUNNELING; TRANSVERSE MAGNETIC FIELD;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0034318534     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.4803     Document Type: Article

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