Dipolar ordering in Fe8?

Abstract

We show that the low-temperature physics of molecular nanomagnets, contrary to the prevailing one-molecule picture, must be determined by the long-range magnetic ordering due to many-body dipolar interactions. The calculations here performed, using Ewald's summation, suggest a ferromagnetic ground state with a Curie temperature of about 130 mK. The energy of this state is quite close to those of an antiferromagnetic state and to a glass of frozen spin chains. The latter may be realized at finite temperature due to its high entropy.

7 pages, no figures, submitted to EPL

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• The effects of nuclear spins on the quantum relaxation of the magnetization for the molecular nanomagnet Fe_8
• Ordering of dipolar Ising crystals
• Low temperature magnetic hysteresis in Mn${}_{12}$ acetate single crystals
• Quantum statistical metastability for a finite spin

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