Quantum tunneling of the Neel vector in antiferromagnetic [3 x 3] grid molecules

Abstract

Based on numerical calculations it is shown that the antiferromagnetic grid molecule Mn-[3 x 3] is a very promising candidate to experimentally detect the phenomenon of quantum tunneling of the Neel vector.

arXiv comment4 pages, 3 figures, REVTEX 4, to appear in PRB

References in corpus (8)

• Macroscopic Quantum Coherence in Molecular Magnets
• Elementary excitations in the cyclic molecular nanomagnet Cr8
• Field dependent anisotropy change in a supramolecular Mn(II)-[3x3] grid
• Electron and Nuclear Spin Dynamics in Antiferromagnetic Molecular Rings
• Thermodynamics and Spin Tunneling Dynamics in Ferric Wheels with Excess Spin
• Exchange couplings in the magnetic molecular cluster Mn12Ac
• Quantum-magneto oscillations in a supramolecular Mn(II)-[3 x 3] grid
• Spin dynamics and coherent tunnelling in the molecular magnetic rings Fe_6 and Fe_8

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• Magnetic Cluster Excitations
• The even-odd effect in short antiferromagnetic Heisenberg chains
• E-band excitations in the magnetic Keplerate molecule Fe30
• Direct observation of mixing of spin-multiplets in an antiferromagnetic molecular nanomagnet by electron paramagnetic resonance
• Quantum dynamics of the Neel vector in the antiferromagnetic molecular wheel CsFe8
• Spin excitation spectra of the two dimensional $S=1/2$ Heisenberg model with a checkerboard structure
• Field-induced level crossings in spin clusters: Thermodynamics and magneto-elastic instability