Investigation of easy-plane magnetic anisotropy in P-ligand square-pyramidal CoII single ion magnets

Magnetic Vortex Mass in 2d Easy-plane Magnets

Nonlinear vortex excitations in models for layered or two-dimensional (2D) magnets [1] have attracted much study not only for their role in the thermodynamics of the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless vortex-unbinding transition [2,3], but more recently because their microscopic dynamic behavior is not fully understood. The dynamics of individual vortices continues under study for ferromagnets (FM...

Magnetic anisotropy of a CoII single ion magnet with distorted trigonal prismatic coordination: theory and experiment.

The single ion magnetic properties of Co(ii) are affected by the details of the coordination geometry of the ion. Here we show that a geometry close to trigonal prismatic which arises when the ligand 6,6'-((1Z)-((piperazine-1,4-diylbis(propane-3,1-diyl))bis(azanylylidene))bis(methanylylidene))bis(2-methoxyphenol) coordinates to Co(ii) does indeed lead to enhanced single-ion behaviour as has pre...

Connecting single-ion magnets through ligand dimerisation.

A mononuclear as well as dinuclear Dy(III) complexes of general formula [Dy(hmb)(NO(3))(2)(DMF)(2)] (1) and [Dy(2)(hmt)(NO(3))(4)(DMF)(4)]·DMF (2), where Hhmb: (N'-(2-hydroxy-3-methoxybenzylidene)benzohydrazide and H(2)hmt: (N(1),N(4))-N'(1),N'(4)-bis(2-hydroxy-3-methoxybenzylidene)terephthalohydrazide were obtained using a synthetic strategy involving a polytopic Schiff base ligand. Single-cry...

Magnetic anisotropy in itinerant magnets

Gd-based single-ion magnets with tunable magnetic anisotropy: molecular design of spin qubits.

We report ac susceptibility and continuous wave and pulsed EPR experiments performed on GdW10 and GdW30 polyoxometalate clusters, in which a Gd3+ ion is coordinated to different polyoxometalate moieties. Despite the isotropic character of gadolinium as a free ion, these molecules show slow magnetic relaxation at very low temperatures, characteristic of single molecule magnets. For T≲200  mK, th...