Simple calculation of quantum spin tunneling effects

Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics

Volumn 231, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 255-258

  Liang, J Q ^a,b,c   Muller Kirsten H J W ^a   Rana, J M S ^a  

^a Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

^b SHANXI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; EXCITED STATES;

EIGENVALUES; FERROMAGNETIC PARTICLES; PSEUDOPARTICLE METHOD; QUANTUM SPIN; SPIN TUNNELING;

GROUND STATE;

EID: 0039974689     PISSN: 03759601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0375-9601(97)00297-1     Document Type: Article

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