Manifestation of intermediate spin for Fe$_{8}$

dc.creatorBarnes, S. E.
dc.date1999-07-19
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T03:13:56Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T03:13:56Z
dc.descriptionIntermediate spin, which occurs in the theory of anyons, can also be exhibited by mesoscopic magnetic particles. The necessary broken time reversal symmetry is due to a suitably directed magnetic field. As a function of this field a system passes periodically through points which correspond to whole or half-integer spin. Intermediate spin is defined by fields which lie between these points. Since the tunnel splitting in the ground doublet vanishes for half-integer spin, this splitting becomes periodic. The doubly periodic oscillations observed in the magnetic molecular cluster Fe$_{8}$ represent the first unequivocal observation of this phenomena. Here the whole or half-integer nature of the system, i.e., the parity, is periodic for a field which is along either the easy or hard axis or a suitable combination of the two. A detailed theory is presented.
dc.description4 pages no figures
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9907257
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9907257
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/29492
dc.subjectMesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
dc.titleManifestation of intermediate spin for Fe$_{8}$
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