Chotorlishvili L., Schwab P. and Berakdar J.

We study the magnetization dynamics of a single molecular nanomagnet driven by static and variable magnetic fields within a classical treatment. The underlying analysis is valid for a regime where the energy is definitely lower than the anisotropy barrier, but still a substantial number of states are excited. We find the phase space to contain a separatrix line. Solutions far from it are oscillatory whereas the separatrix solution is of a soliton type. States near the separatrix are extremely sensitive to small perturbations, a fact that we utilize in obtaining dynamically induced magnetization switching. A new type of magnetization switching is proposed.

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