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In magnetic materials, spins sometimes freeze into spatially disordered glassy states. Glass forming liquids or structural glasses are found very often in three dimensions. However, in two dimensions(2D) it is believed that both spin glass and structural glass can never exist at a finite temperature because they are destroyed by thermal fluctuations. Using a large-scale quantum Monte Carlo simulation, we discover a quantum-mechanically driven 2D glass phase at finite temperatures. Our platform is an Ising spin model with a quantum transverse field on a frustrated triangular lattice. How the present glass phase is formed is understood by the following three steps. First, by the interplay of geometrical frustration and quantum fluctuation, part of the spins spontaneously form an antiferromagnetic honeycomb spin-superstructure. Then, small randomness in the bond interaction works as a relevant perturbation to this superstructure and breaks it up into {\it domains}, making it a structural glass. The glassiness of the superstructure, in turn, generates an emergent random magnetic field acting on the remaining fluctuating spins and freezes them. The shape of domains thus formed depends sensitively on the quenching process, which is one of the characteristic features of glass, originating from a multi-valley free-energy landscape. The present system consists only of {\it a single} bistable Ising degree of freedom, which naturally does not become a structural glass alone nor a spin glass alone. Nevertheless, a glass having both types of nature emerges in the form of coexisting two-component glasses, algebraic structural-glass and long-range ordered spin-glass. This new concept of glass-forming mechanism opens a way to realize functional glasses even in low dimensional systems., Comment: 21pages, 14figures

This is a theoretical study of the reversal of a localized quantum spin induced by sequential injection of spins for a spin quantum dot that has a quantum spin. The system consists of ``electrode/quantum well(QW)/dot/QW/electrode" junctions, in which the left QW has an energy level of conduction electrons with only up-spin. We consider a situation in which up-spin electrons are sequentially injected from the left electrode into the dot through the QW and an exchange interaction acts between the electrons and the localized spin. To describe the sequentially injected electrons, we propose a simple method based on approximate solutions from the time-dependent Schr$\ddot{\rm o}$dinger equation. Using this method, it is shown that the spin reversal occurs when the right QW has energy levels of conduction electrons with only down-spin. In particular, the expression of the reversal time of a localized spin is derived and the upper and lower limits of the time are clearly expressed. This expression is expected to be useful for a rough estimation of the minimum relaxation time of the localized spin to achieve the reversal. We also obtain analytic expressions for the expectation value of the localized spin and the electrical current as a function of time. In addition, we found that a system with the non-magnetic right QW exhibits spin reversal or non-reversal depending on the exchange interaction., Comment: 12 pages, 12 figures, to be published in Phys. Rev. B, typos corrected