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Published on: January 19, 2018
Landau-Zener Transition in a Continuously Measured Single-Molecule Spin Transistor
F Troiani1, C Godfrin2, S Thiele2
1Centro S3, Istituto Nanoscienze-CNR, via G. Campi 213/A, I-41125 Modena, Italy.
Abstract:
We monitor the Landau-Zener dynamics of a single-ion magnet inserted into a spin-transistor geometry. For increasing field-sweep rates, the spin reversal probability shows increasing deviations from that of a closed system. In the low-conductance limit, such deviations are shown to result from a dephasing process. In particular, the observed behaviors are successfully simulated by means of an adiabatic master equation, with time averaged dephasing (Lindblad) operators. The time average is tentatively interpreted in terms of the finite time resolution of the continuous measurement.
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