Hyperfine and quadrupole interactions for Dy isotopes in DyPc2 molecules
Journal Article
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· Journal of Physics. Condensed Matter
- Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State Univ. (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, VA (United States); Virginia Tech
- Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State Univ. (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, VA (United States)
Nuclear spin levels play a vital role in understanding magnetization dynamics and implementation and control of quantum bits in lanthanide-based single-molecule magnets. We investigate the hyperfine and nuclear quadrupole interactions for 161Dy and 163Dy nuclei in anionic DyPc2 (Pc=phthalocyanine) single-molecule magnets, using multiconfigurational ab initio methods (beyond density-functional theory) including spin–orbit interaction. The two isotopes of Dy are chosen because the others have zero nuclear spin. Both isotopes have the nuclear spin I=5/2, although the magnitude and sign of the nuclear magnetic moment differ from each other. The large energy gap between the electronic ground and first-excited Kramers doublets, allows us to map the microscopic hyperfine and quadrupole interaction Hamiltonian onto an effective Hamiltonian with an electronic pseudo-spin that corresponds to the ground Kramers doublet. Our ab initio calculations illustrate that the coupling between the nuclear spin and electronic orbital angular momentum contributes the most to the hyperfine interaction and that both the hyperfine and nuclear quadrupole interactions for 161Dy and 163Dy nuclei are much smaller than those for the 159Tb nucleus in TbPc2 single-molecule magnets. The calculated separations of the electronic-nuclear levels are comparable to experimental data reported for 163DyPc2. We demonstrate that hyperfine interaction for the Dy Kramers ion leads to tunnel splitting (or quantum tunneling of magnetization) at zero field. This effect does not occur for TbPc2 single-molecule magnets. The magnetic field values of the avoided level crossings for 161DyPc2 and 163DyPc2 are found to be noticeably different, which can be observed from the experiment.
- Research Organization:
- Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State Univ. (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, VA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22). Chemical Sciences, Geosciences & Biosciences Division
- Contributing Organization:
- San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC)
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0018326
- OSTI ID:
- 1631161
- Alternate ID(s):
- OSTI ID: 23017789
- Journal Information:
- Journal of Physics. Condensed Matter, Journal Name: Journal of Physics. Condensed Matter Journal Issue: 27 Vol. 32; ISSN 0953-8984
- Publisher:
- IOP PublishingCopyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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