Non-Abelian Berry transport, spin coherent states, and Majorana points

Details Non-Abelian Berry transport, spin coherent states, and Majorana points Non-Abelian Berry transport, spin coherent states, and Majorana points

2011-09-12

arxiv.org/abs/1109.2569v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Other Condensed Matter

28 pages, 6 figures

Scientific paper

We consider the adiabatic evolution of Kramers degenerate pairs of spin states in a half-integer spin molecular magnet as the molecule is slowly rotated. To reveal the full details the of the quantum evolution, we use Majorana's parametrisation of a general state in the $2j+1$ dimensional Hilbert space in terms of $2j$ Majorana points. We show that the intricate motion of the Majorana points may be described by a classical hamiltonian which is of the same form, but of quite different origin, as that which appears in the spin-coherent-state path integral. As an illustration we consider molecular magnets of the $j=9/2$ Mn4 family and compute the frequency with which the magnetization varies. This frequency is generally different from the frequency of the rotation.

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