Tunneling, remanence, and frustration in dysprosium-based endohedral single-molecule magnets
2014
Paramagnetic atoms inside nanometer sized fullerenes realize robust, and chemically protected, spin systems. Changing the stoichiometry of the endohedral clusters results in a variety of magnetic ground states, as it is demonstrated for DynSc3-nN@C-80 (n = 1,2,3). All three exhibit distinct hysteresis and qualify as single-molecule magnets. In zero field the magnetization of n = 1 decays via quantum tunneling, while ferromagnetic coupling of the individual dysprosium moments results in remanence for Dy2ScN@C-80 and in a frustrated ground state for n = 3. The latter ground state turns out to be one of the simplest realizations of a frustrated, ferromagnetically coupled, system.
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