| Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 60, Number 5, December 2002
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|---|---|---|
| Page(s) | 768 - 774 | |
| Section | Condensed matter: electronic structure, electrical, magnetic, and optical properties | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2002-00374-9 | |
| Published online | 01 November 2002 | |
Tunneling splittings in 
-acetate single crystals
1
Department of Physics, New York University
4 Washington Place, New York, NY 10003, USA
2
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
University of California San Diego La Jolla, CA
92093-0358, USA
3
Department of Chemistry, University of Florida -
Gainsville, FL 32611-7200, USA
Received:
19
August
2002
Accepted:
24
September
2002
A Landau-Zener multi-crossing method has been used to investigate
the tunnel splittings in high-quality -acetate
single crystals in the pure quantum relaxation regime and for
fields applied parallel to the magnetic easy axis. With this
method several individual tunneling resonances have been studied
over a broad range of time scales. The relaxation is found to be
non-exponential and a distribution of tunnel splittings is
inferred from the data. The distributions suggest that the
inhomogeneity in the tunneling rates is due to disorder that
produces a non-zero mean value of the average transverse
anisotropy, such as in a solvent disorder model. Further, the
effect of intermolecular dipolar interaction on the magnetic
relaxation has been studied.
PACS: 75.45.+j – Macroscopic quantum phenomena in magnetic systems / 75.50.Tt – Fine-particle systems; nanocrystalline materials
© EDP Sciences, 2002
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