Low-energy spin excitations in the molecular magnetic cluster V15

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作者
Chaboussant, G [1 ]
Basler, R
Sieber, A
Ochsenbein, ST
Desmedt, A
Lechner, RE
Telling, MTF
Kögerler, P
Müller, A
Güdel, HU
机构
[1] Univ Bern, Dept Chem & Biochem, CH-3000 Bern 9, Switzerland
[2] Hahn Meitner Inst Berlin GmbH, BENSC, D-14109 Berlin, Germany
[3] Rutherford Appleton Lab, ISIS Facil, Didcot OX11 0QX, Oxon, England
[4] Iowa State Univ, Ames Lab, Ames, IA 50011 USA
[5] Univ Bielefeld, Fak Chem, D-33501 Bielefeld, Germany
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EUROPHYSICS LETTERS | 2002年 / 59卷 / 02期
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10.1209/epl/i2002-00240-x
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
We report an Inelastic Neutron Scattering (INS) study of the fully deuterated molecular compound K-6[V-15(IV) As6O42] . 9D(2)O(V-15). Due to geometrical frustration, the essential physics at low temperatures of the V 15 cluster containing 15 coupled V4+ (S = 1/2) is determined by three weakly coupled spin-(1/2) on a triangle. The INS spectra at low energy allow us to directly determine the effective exchange coupling J(0) = 0.211(2) meV within the triangle and the gap 2 = 0.035(2) meV between the two spin-(1/2) doublets of the ground state. Results are discussed in terms of deviations from trigonal symmetry and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) interactions.
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页码:291 / 297
页数:7
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