μSR study of organic systems:: ferromagnetism, antiferromagnetism, the spin-crossover effect, and fluctuations in magnetic nanodiscs

被引:13
作者
Blundell, SJ
Pratt, FL
Lancaster, T
Marshall, IM
Steer, CA
Hayes, W
Sugano, T
Letard, JF
Caneschi, A
Gatteschi, D
Heath, SL
机构
[1] Univ Oxford, Dept Phys, Clarendon Lab, Oxford OX1 3PU, England
[2] Rutherford Appleton Lab, ISIS, Didcot OX11 0QX, Oxon, England
[3] Meiji Gakuin Univ, Dept Chem, Totsuka Ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 244, Japan
[4] ICMCB, Grp Sci Mol, UPR CNRS 9048, F-33608 Pessac, France
[5] Univ Florence, Dept Chem, I-50144 Florence, Italy
[6] Univ York, Dept Chem, York, N Yorkshire, England
基金
英国工程与自然科学研究理事会;
关键词
organic magnet; nanodisc; quantum tunneling; molecular magnet;
D O I
10.1016/S0921-4526(02)01688-5
中图分类号
O469 [凝聚态物理学];
学科分类号
070205 ;
摘要
We present the results of recent muSR experiments on a variety of novel organic and molecular magnetic systems. Muons are sensitive to local static fields and magnetic fluctuations, but can probe much more than just the onset of long-range magnetic order. We review our work on nitronyl nitroxide organic ferromagnets and anti ferromagnets. We describe a muon study of the spin-crossover phenomenon which has been studied in Fe(PM-PEA)(2)(NCS)(2), and which shows Gaussian and root-exponential muon relaxation in the high-spin and low-spin phases, respectively. Experiments on a disc-shaped molecular complex containing Fe-19 (with spin 31/2) reveal the effects of quantum tunneling of magnetization and allow an estimate of the quantum tunneling rate. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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页码:556 / 562
页数:7
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