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Tunneling Assisted Forbidden Transitions In The Single Molecule Magnet Ni4, Yiming Chen
Tunneling Assisted Forbidden Transitions In The Single Molecule Magnet Ni4, Yiming Chen
Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation presents work in exploring novel quantum phenomena in singlemolecule magnets (SMMs) and superconducting circuits. The degree of the freedom studied is the magnetic moment of a single molecule and the flux quantum trapped in a superconducting ring. These phenomena provide us with new insights into some basic questions of physics and may also find their application in quantum computing. The molecule we studied is Ni4 ([Ni4(hmp)(dmp)Cl]4) which can be treated as a spin-4 magnet. The large magnetic anisotropy of the molecule leads to bistability of the magnetic moment at low temperatures, with spin-up and spin-down states separated by …