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SUBMITTER: Paulsen C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6447640 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Paulsen C C Giblin S R SR Lhotel E E Prabhakaran D D Matsuhira K K Balakrishnan G G Bramwell S T ST
Nature communications 20190403 1
Extensive work on single molecule magnets has identified a fundamental mode of relaxation arising from the nuclear-spin assisted quantum tunnelling of nearly independent and quasi-classical magnetic dipoles. Here we show that nuclear-spin assisted quantum tunnelling can also control the dynamics of purely emergent excitations: magnetic monopoles in spin ice. Our low temperature experiments were conducted on canonical spin ice materials with a broad range of nuclear spin values. By measuring the ...[more]