Molecular electronic spins are good candidates as qubits since they are characterized by a large tunability of their electronic and magnetic properties through a rational chemical design. Coordination compounds of light transition metals are promising systems for spin-based quantum information technologies, thanks to their long spin coherence times up to room temperature. Our work aims at presenting an in-depth study on how the spin-phonon coupling in vanadyl-acetylacetonate, [VO(acac)2], can change as a function of temperature using terahertz time-domain spectroscopy and density functional theory (DFT) calculations. Powder THz spectra were recorded between 10 and 300 K. The temperature dependence of vibrational frequencies was then accounted for in the periodic DFT calculations using unit-cell parameters measured at two different temperatures and the optimized ones, as usually reported in the literature. In this way, it was possible to calculate the observed THz anharmonic frequency shift with high accuracy. The overall differences in the spin-phonon coupling magnitudes as a function of temperature were also highlighted showing that the computed trends have to be ascribed to the anisotropic variation of cell parameters.

Temperature Dependence of Spin-Phonon Coupling in [VO(acac)2]: A Computational and Spectroscopic Study / Albino A.; Benci S.; Atzori M.; Chelazzi L.; Ciattini S.; Taschin A.; Bartolini P.; Lunghi A.; Righini R.; Torre R.; Totti F.; Sessoli R.. - In: JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY. C. - ISSN 1932-7447. - STAMPA. - 125:(2021), pp. 22100-22110. [10.1021/acs.jpcc.1c06916]

Temperature Dependence of Spin-Phonon Coupling in [VO(acac)2]: A Computational and Spectroscopic Study

Albino A.;Benci S.;Chelazzi L.;Ciattini S.;Taschin A.;Bartolini P.;Righini R.;Torre R.;Totti F.;Sessoli R.
2021

Abstract

Molecular electronic spins are good candidates as qubits since they are characterized by a large tunability of their electronic and magnetic properties through a rational chemical design. Coordination compounds of light transition metals are promising systems for spin-based quantum information technologies, thanks to their long spin coherence times up to room temperature. Our work aims at presenting an in-depth study on how the spin-phonon coupling in vanadyl-acetylacetonate, [VO(acac)2], can change as a function of temperature using terahertz time-domain spectroscopy and density functional theory (DFT) calculations. Powder THz spectra were recorded between 10 and 300 K. The temperature dependence of vibrational frequencies was then accounted for in the periodic DFT calculations using unit-cell parameters measured at two different temperatures and the optimized ones, as usually reported in the literature. In this way, it was possible to calculate the observed THz anharmonic frequency shift with high accuracy. The overall differences in the spin-phonon coupling magnitudes as a function of temperature were also highlighted showing that the computed trends have to be ascribed to the anisotropic variation of cell parameters.
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Albino A.; Benci S.; Atzori M.; Chelazzi L.; Ciattini S.; Taschin A.; Bartolini P.; Lunghi A.; Righini R.; Torre R.; Totti F.; Sessoli R.
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