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American Physical Society, Physical review B, 22(79)

DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.79.220404

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Spin dynamics in the neutral rare-earth single-molecule magnets[TbPc2]0and[DyPc2]0fromμSRand NMR spectroscopies

Journal article published in 2009 by F. Branzoli ORCID, M. Filibian, P. Carretta, S. Klyatskaya, M. Ruben ORCID
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Abstract

The spin dynamics in [TbPc2](0) and [DyPc2](0) single-molecule magnets have been investigated by means of muon and nuclear spin-lattice relaxation rate measurements. The correlation time for the spin fluctuations was found to be close to 0.1 ms already at 50 K, about 2 orders of magnitude larger than the one previously found in other lanthanide-based single-molecule magnets. In [TbPc2](0) two different regimes for the spin fluctuations have been evidenced: a high-temperature activated one involving spin fluctuations across a barrier Delta similar or equal to 880 K separating the ground and first excited states and a low-temperature regime involving quantum fluctuations within the twofold degenerate ground state. In [DyPc2](0) a high-temperature activated spin dynamics is also evidenced which, however, cannot be explained in terms of a single spin-phonon coupling constant.