EXPERIMENTS IN QUANTUM MAGNETIC-RELAXATION

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TEJADA, J
ZHANG, XX
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[1] Facultat de Fisíca, Universitat de Barcelona, 08028 Barcelona
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10.1016/0304-8853(94)00497-8
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T [工业技术];
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08 ;
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We present a comprehensive study of low temperature magnetic relaxation in a variety of magnetic systems. We show data for both logarithmic relaxation (many-barrier problem) and exponential decay of magnetization (single-barrier problem). Our key observation is the non-thermal character of the relaxation below a few kelvin. Our data on the exponential relaxation provide, for the first time, an opportunity for a precise comparison between theory and experiment.
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页码:1815 / 1818
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