Periodic instanton and phase transition in quantum tunneling of spin systems

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

Volumn 253, Issue 5-6, 1999, Pages 345-353

  Zhang, Yunbo ^a,b   Nie, Yihang ^b   Kou, Supeng ^a,b   Liang, Jiuqing ^a,b   Muller Kirsten H J W ^c   Pu, Fu Cho ^a,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b SHANXI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

^d GUANGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Periodic instanton; Phase transition; Spin tunneling

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BINARY ALLOYS; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; MANGANESE ALLOYS; PHASE TRANSITIONS;

ANISOTROPY CONSTANTS; EXTERNAL MAGNETIC FIELD; FERROMAGNETIC GRAIN; FERROMAGNETIC PARTICLES; FIRST ORDER TRANSITIONS; INSTANTONS; POTENTIAL BARRIERS; SPIN TUNNELING;

FERROMAGNETISM;

EID: 0041780048     PISSN: 03759601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0375-9601(99)00044-4     Document Type: Article

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