Ab initio computations of zero-field splitting parameters and effective exchange integrals for single-molecule magnets (Mn 12 - and Mn 11 Cr-acetate clusters)

Polyhedron ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 136 ◽  
pp. 159-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shinsuke Sano ◽  
Takashi Kawakami ◽  
Shohei Yoshimura ◽  
Mitsuo Shoji ◽  
Shusuke Yamanaka ◽  
...  
2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christoph van Wüllen ◽  
Eva M. V. Kessler

Building blocks containing $5d$ spin centres are promising for constructing single molecule magnets due to their large spin-orbit interaction, but experimental and computational results obtained so far indicate that this might not be the case for Re$^\textrm{IV}$ centres in an octahedral environment. Density functional results obtained in this work for [ReCl$_4$(CN)$_2$]$^{2-}$ and trinuclear complexes formed by attaching Mn$^\textrm{II}$ centres to the cyano ligands indicate that zero field splitting in such complexes exhibits large rhombicity (which leads to fast relaxation of the magnetisation) even if there are only small distortions from an ideal geometry with a four-fold symmetry axis. This is already apparent if second-order spin-orbit perturbation theory is applied but even more pronounced if higher-order spin-orbit effects are included as well, as demonstrated by wavefunction based calculations. Computational results are cast into a ligand field model and these simulations show that especially a distortion which is not along the $C_4/C_2$ axeshas a large effect on the rhombicity. Quantum simulations on these complexes are difficult because the zero field splitting strongly depends on the energetic position of the low-lying doublets from the $t_{2g}^3$ configuration.


1983 ◽  
Vol 87 (24) ◽  
pp. 4833-4839 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Feller ◽  
Weston Thatcher Borden ◽  
Ernest R. Davidson

1980 ◽  
Vol 73 (2) ◽  
pp. 865-869 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ernest R. Davidson ◽  
James C. Ellenbogen ◽  
Stephen R. Langhoff

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florian Liedy ◽  
Robbie McNab ◽  
Julien Eng ◽  
Ross Inglis ◽  
Thomas Penfold ◽  
...  

<p>Single-Molecule Magnets (SMMs) are metal complexes with two degenerate magnetic ground states arising from a non-zero spin ground state and a zero-field splitting. SMMs are promising for future applications in data storage, however, to date the ability to manipulate the spins using optical stimulus is lacking. Here, we have explored the ultrafast dynamics occurring after photoexcitation of two structurally related Mn(III)-based SMMs, whose magnetic anisotropy is closely related to the Jahn-Teller distortion, and demonstrate coherent modulation of the axial anisotropy on a femtosecond timescale. Ultrafast transient absorption spectroscopy in solution reveals oscillations superimposed on the decay traces with corresponding energies around 200 cm<sup>−1</sup>, coinciding with a vibrational mode along the Jahn-Teller axis. Our results provide a non-thermal, coherent mechanism to dynamically control the magnetisation in SMMs and open up new molecular design challenges to enhance the change in anisotropy in the excited state, which is essential for future ultrafast magneto-optical data storage devices.</p>


2014 ◽  
Vol 16 (19) ◽  
pp. 9171-9181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenji Sugisaki ◽  
Kazuo Toyota ◽  
Kazunobu Sato ◽  
Daisuke Shiomi ◽  
Masahiro Kitagawa ◽  
...  

The CASSCF and hybrid CASSCF–MRMP2 methods reproduce the ZFS tensors of spin-septet 2,4,6-trinitrenopyridines, focusing on the heavy atom effects on the spin–orbit terms of the tensors.


2011 ◽  
Vol 13 (15) ◽  
pp. 6970 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenji Sugisaki ◽  
Kazuo Toyota ◽  
Kazunobu Sato ◽  
Daisuke Shiomi ◽  
Masahiro Kitagawa ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rishu Khurana ◽  
Sameer Gupta ◽  
Md. Ehesan Ali

<div>With the ongoing efforts to obtain mononuclear 3d-transition metal complexes that manifest slow relaxation of magnetization and hence, can behave as single molecule magnets (SMMs), we have modelled 14 novel Fe(III) complexes out of which nine behave as potential SMMs. These complexes possess large zero-field splitting (ZFS)</div><div>parameter D in the range of -40 to -60 cm<sup>-1</sup>. The first-principles investigation of the ground-spin state applying density functional theory (DFT) and wave-function based</div><div>multi-configurations methods e.g. SA-CASSCF/NEVPT2 are found to be quite consistent except for few delicate cases with near degenerate spin-states. In such cases, the</div><div>hybrid B3LYP functional is found to be biased towards high-spin (HS) state. Altering the percentage of exact exchange admixed in B3LYP functional leads to intermediate spin</div><div>(IS) ground state consistent with the multireference calculations. The origin of large zero field splitting (ZFS) in the Fe(III)-based trigonal bipyramidal (TBP) complexes</div><div>is investigated and the D-values are further tuned by varying the axial ligands with group XV elements (N, P and As) and equatorial halide ligands from F, Cl, Br and I. Furthermore, a number of complexes are identified with very small Gibbs free energy values indicating the possible spin-crossover phenomenon between the bi-stable spin-states.</div>


Author(s):  
Theocharis C Stamatatos ◽  
George Christou

Mixed-valent Mn/O dinuclear and polynuclear molecular compounds containing Mn III are almost without exception trapped valence. Large differences between the strengths of the exchange interactions within Mn II Mn III , Mn III Mn III and Mn III Mn IV pairs lead to situations where Mn III Mn IV interactions, the strongest of the three mentioned and antiferromagnetic in nature, dominate the intramolecular spin alignments in trinuclear and higher nuclearity mixed-valent complexes and often result in molecules that have large, and sometimes abnormally large, values of molecular spin ( S ). When coupled to a large molecular magnetoanisotropy of the easy-axis-type (negative zero-field splitting parameter, D ), also primarily resulting from individual Jahn–Teller distorted Mn III centres, such molecules will function as single-molecule magnets (molecular nanomagnets). Dissection of the structures and exchange interactions within a variety of mixed-valent Mn x cluster molecules with metal nuclearities of Mn 4 , Mn 12 and Mn 25 allows a ready rationalization of the observed S , D and overall magnetic properties in terms of competing antiferromagnetic exchange interactions within triangular subunits, resulting spin alignments and relative orientation of Mn III JT axes. Such an understanding has provided a stepping stone to the identification of a ‘magnetically soft’ Mn 25 cluster whose groundstate spin S value can be significantly altered by relatively minor structural perturbations. Such ‘spin tweaking’ has allowed this cluster to be obtained in three different forms with three different groundstate S values.


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