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The role of anharmonic phonons in under-barrier spin relaxation of single molecule magnets
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The use of single molecule magnets in mainstream electronics requires their magnetic moment to be stable over long times. One can achieve such a goal by designing compounds with spin-reversal barriers exceeding room temperature, namely with large uniaxial anisotropies. Such strategy, however, has been defeated by several recent experiments demonstrating under-barrier relaxation at high temperature, a behaviour today unexplained. Here we propose spin–phonon coupling to be responsible for such anomaly. With a combination of electronic structure theory and master equations we show that, in the presence of phonon dissipation, the relevant energy scale for the spin relaxation is given by the lower-lying phonon modes interacting with the local spins. These open a channel for spin reversal at energies lower than that set by the magnetic anisotropy, producing fast under-barrier spin relaxation. Our findings rationalize a significant body of experimental work and suggest a possible strategy for engineering room temperature single molecule magnets.
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- Lunghi, A., Totti, F., Sessoli, R., & Sanvito, S.
- Venue
- Nature Communications
- Published
- 2017-03-06
- Volume
- 8
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 14620-14620
- ISSN
- 2041-1723 (ISSN-L)
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- W2593891546
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- 458
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- 15.46
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- en
- Open access
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