Weak ferromagnetism with very large canting in a chiral lattice: (pyrimidine)2FeCl2

Details Weak ferromagnetism with very large canting in a chiral lattice: (pyrimidine)2FeCl2 Weak ferromagnetism with very large canting in a chiral lattice: (pyrimidine)2FeCl2

2003-02-06

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0302121v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

6 pages, 5 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.69.134427

The transition metal coordination compound (pyrimidine)2FeCl2 crystallizes in a chiral lattice, space group I 4_1 2 2 (or I4_3 2 2). Combined magnetization, Mossbauer spectroscopy and powder neutron diffraction studies reveal that it is a canted antiferromagnet below T_N = 6.4 K with an unusually large canting of the magnetic moments of 14 deg. from their general antiferromagnetic alignment, one of the largest reported to date. This results in weak ferromagnetism with a ferromagnetic component of 1 mu_B. The large canting is due to the interplay between the antiferromagnetic exchange interaction and the local single-ion anisotropy in the chiral lattice. The magnetically ordered structure of (pyrimidine)2FeCl2, however, is not chiral. The implications of these findings for the search of molecule based materials exhibiting chiral magnetic ordering is discussed.

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