Magnetic Properties of a Heisenberg Coupled-Trimer Molecular Magnet: General
- ORNL
- University of Victoria
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK)
We report predictions for the energy eigenstates and inelastic neutron scattering excitations of an isotropic Heisenberg hexamer consisting of general spin S and S′ trimers. Specializing to spin-1/2 ions, we give analytic results for the energy excitations, magnetic susceptibility, and inelastic neutron scattering intensities for this hexamer system. To examine this model further, we compare these calculations to the measured magnetic susceptibility of a vanadium material, which is considered to be well defined magnetically as an isolated S = 1/2 V4+ trimer model. Using our model, we determine the amount of inter-trimer coupling that can be accommodated by the measured susceptibility, and predict the inelastic neutron scattering spectrum for comparison with future measurements.
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- DOE Contract Number:
- DE-AC05-00OR22725
- OSTI ID:
- 979195
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review B, Vol. 80, Issue 6; ISSN 1098-0121
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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