Incommensurate transverse anisotropy induced by disorder and spin-orbit-vibron coupling in Mn 12 acetate

Kyungwha Park; Mark R. Pederson; Tunna Baruah; Noam Bernstein; Jens Kortus; Steven L. Richardson; Enrique Del Barco; Andrew D. Kent; Steve Hill; Naresh S. Dalal

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Incommensurate transverse anisotropy induced by disorder and spin-orbit-vibron coupling in Mn ₁₂ acetate

Kyungwha Park, Mark R. Pederson, Tunna Baruah, Noam Bernstein, Jens Kortus, Steven L. Richardson, Enrique Del Barco, Andrew D. Kent, Steve Hill, Naresh S. Dalal

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It has been shown within density-functional theory that in Mn12 acetate there are effects due to disorder by solvent molecules and a coupling between vibrational and electronic degrees of freedom. We calculate the in-plane principal axes of the second-order anisotropy caused by the second effect and compare them with those of the fourth-order anisotropy due to the first effect. We find that the two types of the principal axes are not commensurate with each other, which results in a complete quenching of the tunnel-splitting oscillation as a function of an applied transverse field.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	10M505
Journal	Journal of Applied Physics
Volume	97
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1847851
State	Published - May 15 2005

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