Photon-assisted tunneling in a Fe 8 single-molecule magnet

2003 
The low-temperature spin dynamics of a ${\mathrm{Fe}}_{8}$ single-molecule magnet was studied under circularly polarized electromagnetic radiation allowing us to establish clearly photon-assisted tunneling. This effect, while linear at low power, becomes highly nonlinear above a relatively low-power threshold. Heating due to phonon emission, spin-spin interactions, and coherent emission/absorption of photons might lead to the observed nonlinearity. These results are of importance if such systems are to be used as quantum computers.
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