Magnetic properties and spin dynamics of 3d-4f molecular complexes

Details Magnetic properties and spin dynamics of 3d-4f molecular complexes Magnetic properties and spin dynamics of 3d-4f molecular complexes

2011-11-29

arxiv.org/abs/1111.7008v1

Phys. Rev. B 84, 184439 (2011)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.84.184439

We present the magnetic properties of three recently synthesized binuclear molecular complexes [NiNd], [NiGd] and [ZnGd] investigated by dc magnetization and proton nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) measurements. The high-temperature magnetic properties are related to the independent paramagnetic behavior of the two magnetic metal ions within the binuclear entities both in [NiNd] and [NiGd]. On lowering the temperature, the formation of a magnetic dimer, with a low-spin ground state due to antiferromagnetic interaction (J/kB = -25 K) between Ni2+ and Nd3+, is found in the case of [NiNd], while in [NiGd] a ferromagnetic interaction (J/kB = 3.31 K) between the magnetic ions leads to a high-spin (S = 9/2) ground state. The temperature dependence of the proton nuclear spin lattice relaxation rate 1/T1 in [NiNd] is driven by the fluctuation of the hyperfine field at the nuclear site due to relaxation of the magnetization. At high temperature the independent Ni2+ and Nd3+ spins fluctuate fast while at low temperature we observe a slowing down of the fluctuation of the total magnetization of the dimer because of the insurgence of antiferromagnetic spin correlations. The relaxation mechanism in [NiNd] at low temperature is interpreted by a single, temperature dependent, correlation frequency wc\simT^3.5, which reflects the life time broadening of the exchange coupled spins via spin-phonon interaction. The proton NMR signal in [NiGd] could be detected just at room temperature, due to the shortening of relaxation times when T is decreased. The magnetic properties of [ZnGd] are the ones expected from a weakly interacting assembly of isolated moments except for anomalies in the susceptibility and NMR results below 15 K which currently cannot be explained.

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