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Sub-Kelvin hysteresis of the dilanthanide single-molecule magnet Tb2ScN@ C80

Kostanyan, Aram ; Westerström, Rasmus LU ; Kunhardt, David ; Büchner, Bernd ; Popov, Alexey A. and Greber, Thomas (2020) In Physical Review B 101(13).
Abstract

Magnetic hysteresis is a direct manifestation of nonequilibrium physics that has to be understood if a system is to be used for information storage and processing. The dilanthanide endofullerene Tb2ScN@C80 is shown to be a single-molecule magnet with a remanence time on the order of 100 s at 400 mK. Three different temperature-dependent relaxation barriers are discerned. The lowest 1 K barrier is assigned to intermolecular dipole-dipole interaction, the 10 K barrier to intramolecular exchange and dipolar coupling, and the 50 K barrier to molecular vibrations as was observed for Dy2ScN@C80. The 4 orders of magnitude difference in the prefactor between the Tb and the Dy compound in the decay process across the 10 K barrier is assigned to... (More)

Magnetic hysteresis is a direct manifestation of nonequilibrium physics that has to be understood if a system is to be used for information storage and processing. The dilanthanide endofullerene Tb2ScN@C80 is shown to be a single-molecule magnet with a remanence time on the order of 100 s at 400 mK. Three different temperature-dependent relaxation barriers are discerned. The lowest 1 K barrier is assigned to intermolecular dipole-dipole interaction, the 10 K barrier to intramolecular exchange and dipolar coupling, and the 50 K barrier to molecular vibrations as was observed for Dy2ScN@C80. The 4 orders of magnitude difference in the prefactor between the Tb and the Dy compound in the decay process across the 10 K barrier is assigned to the lack of Kramers protection in Tb3+. The sub-Kelvin hysteresis follows changes in the magnetization at level crossings of the four possible Tb2 ground-state configurations. Comparison to a hysteresis model, with magnetic relaxation at level crossings only, reveals cooperative action between nearby molecules.

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  author       = {{Kostanyan, Aram and Westerström, Rasmus and Kunhardt, David and Büchner, Bernd and Popov, Alexey A. and Greber, Thomas}},
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  title        = {{Sub-Kelvin hysteresis of the dilanthanide single-molecule magnet Tb2ScN@ C80}},
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