Abstract
We study the effects of a transverse magnetic field on the dynamics of the randomly diluted, dipolar coupled, Ising magnet . The transverse field mixes the eigenfunctions of the ground-state Ising doublet with the otherwise inaccessible excited-state levels. We observe a rapid decrease in the characteristic relaxation times, large changes in the spectral form of the relaxation, and a depression of the spin-glass transition temperature with the introduction of quantum fluctuations.
- Received 11 March 1991
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.67.2076
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