S. Miyashita et K. Saito, Nonexponential relaxation of magnetization at the resonant tunneling pointunder a fluctuating random noise, J PHYS JPN, 70(11), 2001, pp. 3238-3246
At resonant tunneling points of nanoscale molecular magnets, a fluctuating
random field causes successive Landau-Zener-Stuckelberg transitions. We hav
e studied dynamics of magnetization by a Langevin type Schrodinger equation
and found that the successive transitions. result in a stretched exponenti
al decay with square-root time when the fluctuation of the field is regarde
d as an random walk, i.e., the, Wiener process. When the fluctuation is bou
nded by a restoring force, i.e., the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process, the relaxa
tion obeys the exponential decay at the late stage, while it shows the stre
tched exponential decay at the early stage. The scaling relations of the re
laxation functions at both stages are also studied as functions of the para
meters: the strength of the fluctuation, the restoring force, and the energ
y gap of the system at the resonant point. Roles of the observed nonexponen
tial decay are also discussed in various kinds of square-root time behavior
found in experiments.