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Geometric-Phase Interference In A Mn12 Single-Molecule Magnet With Four-Fold Rotational Symmetry, S T. Adams, E H. Da Silva Neto, S Datta, J F. Ware, Christos Lampropoulos, G Christou, Y Myaesoedov, E Zeldov, Jonathan R. Friedman
Geometric-Phase Interference In A Mn12 Single-Molecule Magnet With Four-Fold Rotational Symmetry, S T. Adams, E H. Da Silva Neto, S Datta, J F. Ware, Christos Lampropoulos, G Christou, Y Myaesoedov, E Zeldov, Jonathan R. Friedman
Christos Lampropoulos
We study the magnetic relaxation rate Gamma of the single-molecule magnet Mn12-tBuAc as a function of magnetic field component HT transverse to the molecule's easy axis. When the spin is near a magnetic quantum tunneling resonance, we find that Gamma increases abruptly at certain values of HT. These increases are observed just beyond values of HT at which a geometric-phase interference effect suppresses tunneling between two excited energy levels. The effect is washed out by rotating HT away from the spin's hard axis, thereby suppressing the interference effect. Detailed numerical calculations of Gamma using the known spin Hamiltonian accurately reproduce …