Magnetic Properties Of Transition Metal Ions Research Articles

Large Orbital Moment of Two Coupled Spin-Half Co Ions in a Complex on Gold.

The magnetic properties of transition-metal ions are generally described by the atomic spins of the ions and their exchange coupling. The orbital moment, usually largely quenched due the ligand field, is then seen as a perturbation. In such a scheme, S = 1/2 ions are predicted to be isotropic. We investigate a Co(II) complex with two antiferromagnetically coupled 1/2 spins on Au(111) using low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy, X-ray magnetic circular dichroism, and density functional theory. We find that each of the Co ions has an orbital moment comparable to that of the spin, leading to magnetic anisotropy, with the spins preferentially oriented along the Co-Co axis. The orbital moment and the associated magnetic anisotropy is tuned by varying the electronic coupling of the molecule to the substrate and the microscope tip. These findings show the need to consider the orbital moment even in systems with strong ligand fields. As a consequence, the description of S = 1/2 ions becomes strongly modified, which have important consequences for these prototypical systems for quantum operations.

Optical and magnetic properties of transition-metal ions in tetrahedral and octahedral compounds

This paper presents the complete energy matrix of the 3d2 system containing the electron-electron interaction, the ligand-field interaction, the spin-orbit coupling interaction, and the Zeeman interaction, in which the optical spectra and g-factor of V3+and Ti2+ ions in the series of tetrahedral AIIBVI (AII=Zn, Cd, BVI=S, Se, Te) semiconductor materials are determined. In the investigation of the optical and magnetic properties of these transition-metal ions in the tetrahedral coordination complexes, we compared the data obtained from the transition-metal ions in the tetrahedral coordination complexes with those obtained from the corresponding ions in the octahedral ones, and found that the tetrahedral complexes have weaker crystal-field strength, inverse energy level ordering and stronger covalence effect.