Study of low temperature magnetic properties of a single chain magnet with alternate isotropic and non-collinear anisotropic units

DOI10.1007/S10955-012-0460-7MaRDI QIDQ425187zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Shaon Sahoo, Jean-Pascal Sutter, S. Ramasesha

Publication date 7 June 2012

Published in Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.0933

zbMATH Keywords

alternate isotropic and anisotropic unitsinter-chain interactionsingle chain magnets

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20) Statistical thermodynamics (82B30) Statistical mechanics of magnetic materials (82D40)

Abstract: Here we study thermodynamic properties of an important class of single-chain magnets (SCMs), where alternate units are isotropic and anisotropic with anisotropy axes being non-collinear. This class of SCMs shows slow relaxation at low temperatures which results from the interplay of two different relaxation mechanisms, namely dynamical and thermal. Here anisotropy is assumed to be large and negative, as a result, anisotropic units behave like canted spins at low temperatures; but even then simple Ising-type model does not capture the essential physics of the system due to quantum mechanical nature of the isotropic units. We here show how statistical behavior of this class of SCMs can be studied using a transfer matrix (TM) method. We also, for the first time, discuss in detail how weak inter-chain interactions can be treated by a TM method. The finite size effect is also discussed which becomes important for low temperature dynamics. At the end of this paper, we apply this technique to study a real helical chain magnet.

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