We present new results on the zero-field magnetic relaxation in a single crystal of Mn(12) acetate. We find three relaxation regimes. Above 2.8 K, the relaxation is exponential. Below this temperature, deviations are observed. These deviations are more pronounced when temperature decreases between 2.4 and 2.0 K. Below 2.0 K they lead to a square root relaxation. A scaling analysis is proposed, which shows the dipolar interactions can be treated as a time-dependent local mean field in the thermally activated tunneling regime. These evolutions of local mean field produce deviations from the exponential relaxation and can explain the square root regime at lower temperature.

Nonexponential Dynamic Scaling of the Magnetization Relaxation in Mn12 Acetate / Luc Thomas;Andrea Caneschi;Bernard Barbara. - In: PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS. - ISSN 0031-9007. - STAMPA. - 83:(1999), pp. 2398-2401. [10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.2398]

Nonexponential Dynamic Scaling of the Magnetization Relaxation in Mn12 Acetate

CANESCHI, ANDREA;
1999

Abstract

We present new results on the zero-field magnetic relaxation in a single crystal of Mn(12) acetate. We find three relaxation regimes. Above 2.8 K, the relaxation is exponential. Below this temperature, deviations are observed. These deviations are more pronounced when temperature decreases between 2.4 and 2.0 K. Below 2.0 K they lead to a square root relaxation. A scaling analysis is proposed, which shows the dipolar interactions can be treated as a time-dependent local mean field in the thermally activated tunneling regime. These evolutions of local mean field produce deviations from the exponential relaxation and can explain the square root regime at lower temperature.
1999
83
2398
2401
Luc Thomas;Andrea Caneschi;Bernard Barbara
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