Physics – Condensed Matter – Materials Science
Scientific paper
2004-12-07
Physics
Condensed Matter
Materials Science
9 pages, 11 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. B, corrected typos and added references, one sentence changed
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.71.174407
Inelastic neutron scattering has been applied to the study of the spin dynamics of Cr-based antiferromagnetic octanuclear rings where a finite total spin of the ground state is obtained by substituting one Cr(III) ion (s = 3/2) with Zn (s = 0), Mn (s = 5/2) or Ni (s = 1) di-cations. Energy and intensity measurements for several intra-multiplet and inter-multiplet magnetic excitations allow us to determine the spin wavefunctions of the investigated clusters. Effects due to the mixing of different spin multiplets have been considered. Such effects proved to be important to correctly reproduce the energy and intensity of magnetic excitations in the neutron spectra. On the contrary to what is observed for the parent homonuclear Cr8 ring, the symmetry of the first excited spin states is such that anticrossing conditions with the ground state can be realized in the presence of an external magnetic field. Heterometallic Cr7M wheels are therefore good candidates for macroscopic observations of quantum effects.
Amoretti G.
Caciuffo R.
Carretta S.
Guidi Tatiana
Liviotti E.
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