Coherent spin oscillations in a disordered magnet

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作者
Ghosh, S
Parthasarathy, R
Rosenbaum, TF
Aeppli, G
机构
[1] Univ Chicago, James Franck Inst, Chicago, IL 60637 USA
[2] Univ Chicago, Dept Phys, Chicago, IL 60637 USA
[3] NEC Res Inst, Princeton, NJ 08540 USA
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10.1126/science.1070731
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
Most materials freeze when cooled to sufficiently low temperature. We find that magnetic dipoles randomly distributed in a solid matrix condense into a spin liquid with spectral properties on cooling that are the diametric opposite of those for conventional glasses. Measurements of the nonlinear magnetic dynamics in the low-temperature liquid reveal the presence of coherent spin oscillations composed of hundreds of spins with lifetimes of up to 10 seconds. These excitations can be labeled by frequency and manipulated by the magnetic fields from a loop of wire and can permit the encoding of information at multiple frequencies simultaneously.
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