Low-energy spin excitations in the molecular magnetic cluster V<sub>15</sub>
G. Chaboussant; R. Basler; A. Sieber; S. T. Ochsenbein; A. Desmedt; R. E. Lechner; M. T. F. Telling; P. Kögerler; A. Müller; H.-U. Güdel
Журнал:
EPL (Europhysics Letters)
Дата:
2002-07-01
Аннотация:
We report an Inelastic Neutron Scattering (INS) study of the fully deuterated molecular compound K<sub>6</sub>[V<sub>15</sub><sup>IV</sup>As<sub>6</sub>O<sub>42</sub>] · 9D<sub>2</sub>O (V<sub>15</sub>). Due to geometrical frustration, the essential physics at low temperatures of the V<sub>15</sub> cluster containing 15 coupled V<sup>4+</sup> (S = 1/2) is determined by three weakly coupled spin-(1/2) on a triangle. The INS spectra at low energy allow us to directly determine the effective exchange coupling J<sub>0</sub> = 0.211(2) meV within the triangle and the gap 2Δ = 0.035(2) meV between the two spin-(1/2) doublets of the ground state. Results are discussed in terms of deviations from trigonal symmetry and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) interactions.
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