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MA: Fachverband Magnetismus

MA 3: Bio- and Molecular Magnetism

MA 3.6: Talk

Monday, March 14, 2011, 12:15–12:30, HSZ 401

(contribution withdrawn) Quantum Coherence in Molecular Nanomagnets — •Joris van Slageren — Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Universität Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 55, 70569 Stuttgart

The occurrence of quantum coherence in molecular nanomagnets has recently attracted a great deal of attraction. Molecular nanomagnets are exchange coupled molecular clusters of transition metal ions, bridged by ligands and encapsulated in an organic ligand shell. They can be easily and extensively modified and tuned in terms of size, spin and anisotropy by chemical synthetic means. This makes these mesoscopic systems excellently suited to the investigation of the transition between the quantum world of single particles and the classical world that we live in.

In this presentation, we will discuss quantum coherence in molecular nanomagnets and the corresponding decoherence pathways.