Magneto-elastic instability in Molecular Antiferromagnetic Rings

Details Magneto-elastic instability in Molecular Antiferromagnetic Rings Magneto-elastic instability in Molecular Antiferromagnetic Rings

2004-03-23

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0403577v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

4 pages, 4 figures; to appear in PRL

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.197202

Lattice stability in a model of antiferromagnetic ring coupled to adiabatic phonons is investigated for different values of the spin and numbers of magnetic sites. The magneto-elastic transition is shown to be heavily affected by the spin value, displaying a qualitative difference in the nature of the instability for spin one-half. Among the different synthesized materials, Cu$_8$ seems to be the best candidate to observe lattice dimerization in these systems. Our analysis excludes stable lattice distortions in higher spin rings. The effects of thermal fluctuations are studied in the Cu$_8$ model, where a characteristic crossover temperature is estimated.

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