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Single-molecule magnet

A single-molecule magnet (SMM) is a metal-organic compound that has superparamagnetic behavior below a certain blocking temperature at the molecular scale. In this temperature range, an SMM exhibits magnetic hysteresis of purely molecular origin.[1][2] In contrast to conventional bulk magnets and molecule-based magnets, collective long-range magnetic ordering of magnetic moments is not necessary.[2]

Although the term "single-molecule magnet" was first employed in 1996,[3] the first single-molecule magnet, [Mn12O12(OAc)16(H2O)4] (nicknamed "Mn12") was reported in 1991.[4][5][6] This manganese oxide compound features a central Mn(IV)4O4 cube surrounded by a ring of 8 Mn(III) units connected through bridging oxo ligands, and displays slow magnetic relaxation behavior up to temperatures of ca. 4 K.[7][8]

Efforts in this field primarily focus on raising the operating temperatures of single-molecule magnets to liquid nitrogen temperature or room temperature in order to enable applications in magnetic memory. Along with raising the blocking temperature, efforts are being made to develop SMMs with high energy barriers to prevent fast spin reorientation.[9] Recent acceleration in this field of research has resulted in significant enhancements of single-molecule magnet operating temperatures to above 70 K.[10][11][12][13]

Measurement edit

Arrhenius behavior of magnetic relaxation edit

Because of single-molecule magnets' magnetic anisotropy, the magnetic moment has usually only two stable orientations antiparallel to each other, separated by an energy barrier. The stable orientations define the molecule's so called “easy axis”. At finite temperature, there is a finite probability for the magnetization to flip and reverse its direction. Identical to a superparamagnet, the mean time between two flips is called the Néel relaxation time and is given by the following Néel–Arrhenius equation:[14]

 

where:

  • τ is the magnetic relaxation time, or the average amount of time that it takes for the molecule's magnetization to randomly flip as a result of thermal fluctuations
  • τ0 is a length of time, characteristic of the material, called the attempt time or attempt period (its reciprocal is called the attempt frequency); its typical value is between 10−9 and 10−10 second
  • Ueff is the energy barrier associated with the magnetization moving from its initial easy axis direction, through a “hard plane”, to the other easy axis direction. The barrier Ueff is generally reported in cm−1 or in kelvins.
  • kB is the Boltzmann constant
  • T is the temperature

This magnetic relaxation time, τ, can be anywhere from a few nanoseconds to years or much longer.

Magnetic blocking temperature edit

The so-called magnetic blocking temperature, TB, is defined as the temperature below which the relaxation of the magnetization becomes slow compared to the time scale of a particular investigation technique.[15] Historically, the blocking temperature for single-molecule magnets has been defined as the temperature at which the molecule's magnetic relaxation time, τ, is 100 seconds. This definition is the current standard for comparison of single-molecule magnet properties, but otherwise is not technologically significant. There is typically a correlation between increasing an SMM's blocking temperature and energy barrier. The average blocking temperature for SMMs is 4K.[16] Dy-metallocenium salts are the most recent SMM to achieve the highest temperature of magnetic hysteresis, greater than that of liquid nitrogen.[9]

Intramolecular magnetic exchange edit

The magnetic coupling between the spins of the metal ions is mediated by superexchange interactions and can be described by the following isotropic Heisenberg Hamiltonian:

 

where   is the coupling constant between spin i (operator  ) and spin j (operator  ). For positive J the coupling is called ferromagnetic (parallel alignment of spins) and for negative J the coupling is called antiferromagnetic (antiparallel alignment of spins): a high spin ground state, a high zero-field-splitting (due to high magnetic anisotropy), and negligible magnetic interaction between molecules.

The combination of these properties can lead to an energy barrier, so that at low temperatures the system can be trapped in one of the high-spin energy wells.[2][17][18][19][20]

Barrier to magnetic relaxation edit

A single-molecule magnet can have a positive or negative magnetic moment, and the energy barrier between these two states greatly determines the molecule's relaxation time. This barrier depends on the total spin of the molecule's ground state and on its magnetic anisotropy. The latter quantity can be studied with EPR spectroscopy.[21]

Performance edit

The performance of single-molecule magnets is typically defined by two parameters: the effective barrier to slow magnetic relaxation, Ueff, and the magnetic blocking temperature, TB. While these two variables are linked, only the latter variable, TB, directly reflects the performance of the single-molecule magnet in practical use. In contrast, Ueff, the thermal barrier to slow magnetic relaxation, only correlates to TB when the molecule's magnetic relaxation behavior is perfectly Arrhenius in nature.

The table below lists representative and record 100-s magnetic blocking temperatures and Ueff values that have been reported for single-molecule magnets.

Complex Type TB (100-s; K) Ueff (cm−1) Ref. Year Reported
[Mn12O12(OAc)16(H2O)4] cluster 3 K 42 cm−1 [5][4][6] 1991
[K(18-crown-6)(THF)2][{[(Me3Si)2N]2(THF)Tb}2(μ-η2:η2-N2)] cluster 14 K 227 cm−1 [22] 2011
Tb(CpiPr5)2 single-ion 52 K 1205 cm−1 [23] 2019
[Dy(Cpttt)2][B(C6F5)4]* single-ion 56 K 1219 cm−1 [10][11] 2017
[Dy(CpiPr4Me)2][B(C6F5)4] single-ion 62 K 1468 cm−1 [12] 2018
[tBuPO(NHiPr)2Dy(H2O)][I3] single-ion 2.4 K 452 cm−1 [24] 2016
[Dy(CpiPr4H)2][B(C6F5)4] single-ion 17 K 1285 cm−1 [12] 2018
[Dy(CpiPr5)(CpMe5)][B(C6F5)4] single-ion 67 K 1541 cm−1 [13] 2018
[Dy(CpiPr4Et)2][B(C6F5)4] single-ion 59 K 1380 cm−1 [12] 2018
[Dy(CpiPr5)2][B(C6F5)4] single-ion 56 K 1334 cm−1 [12] 2018
[Dy(OtBu)2(py)5][BPh4] single-ion 12 K 1264 cm−1 [25] 2016

Abbreviations: OAc=acetate, Cpttt=1,2,4‐tri(tert‐butyl)cyclopentadienide, CpMe5= 1,2,3,4,5-penta(methyl)cyclopentadienide, CpiPr4H= 1,2,3,4-tetra(isopropyl)cyclopentadienide, CpiPr4Me= 1,2,3,4-tetra(isopropyl)-5-(methyl)cyclopentadienide, CpiPr4Et= 1-(ethyl)-2,3,4,5-tetra(isopropyl)cyclopentadienide, CpiPr5= 1,2,3,4,5-penta(isopropyl)cyclopentadienide

*indicates parameters from magnetically dilute samples[26]

Types edit

Metal clusters edit

 
Ferritin

Metal clusters formed the basis of the first decade-plus of single-molecule magnet research, beginning with the archetype of single-molecule magnets, "Mn12".[4][5][6] This complex is a polymetallic manganese (Mn) complex having the formula [Mn12O12(OAc)16(H2O)4], where OAc stands for acetate. It has the remarkable property of showing an extremely slow relaxation of their magnetization below a blocking temperature. [Mn12O12(OAc)16(H2O)4]·4H2O·2AcOH, which is called "Mn12-acetate" is a common form of this used in research.[27]

Single-molecule magnets are also based on iron clusters[15] because they potentially have large spin states. In addition, the biomolecule ferritin is also considered a nanomagnet. In the cluster Fe8Br the cation Fe8 stands for [Fe8O2(OH)12(tacn)6]8+, with tacn representing 1,4,7-triazacyclononane.

The ferrous cube complex [Fe4(sae)4(MeOH)4] was the first example of a single-molecule magnet involving an Fe(II) cluster, and the core of this complex is a slightly distorted cube with Fe and O atoms on alternating corners.[28] Remarkably, this single-molecule magnet exhibits non-collinear magnetism, in which the atomic spin moments of the four Fe atoms point in opposite directions along two nearly perpendicular axes.[29] Theoretical computations showed that approximately two magnetic electrons are localized on each Fe atom, with the other atoms being nearly nonmagnetic, and the spin–orbit-coupling potential energy surface has three local energy minima with a magnetic anisotropy barrier just below 3 meV.[30]

Applications edit

 
One possible use of SMMs is superior magnetic thin films to coat hard disks.

There are many discovered types and potential uses.[31][32] Single-molecule magnets represent a molecular approach to nanomagnets (nanoscale magnetic particles).

Due to the typically large, bi-stable spin anisotropy, single-molecule magnets promise the realization of perhaps the smallest practical unit for magnetic memory, and thus are possible building blocks for a quantum computer.[1] Consequently, many groups have devoted great efforts into synthesis of additional single-molecule magnets. Single-molecule magnets have been considered as potential building blocks for quantum computers.[33] A single-molecule magnet is a system of many interacting spins with clearly defined low-lying energy levels. The high symmetry of the single-molecule magnet allows for a simplification of the spins that can be controllable in external magnetic fields. Single-molecule magnets display strong anisotropy, a property which allows a material to assume a variation of properties in different orientations. Anisotropy ensures that a collection of independent spins would be advantageous for quantum computing applications. A large amount of independent spins compared to a singular spin, permits the creation of a larger qubit and therefore a larger faculty of memory. Superposition and interference of the independent spins also allows for further simplification of classical computation algorithms and queries.

Theoretically, quantum computers can overcome the physical limitations presented by classical computers by encoding and decoding quantum states. Single-molecule magnets have been utilized for the Grover algorithm, a quantum search theory.[34] The quantum search problem typically requests for a specific element to be retrieved from an unordered database. Classically the element would be retrieved after N/2 attempts, however a quantum search utilizes superpositions of data in order to retrieve the element, theoretically reducing the search to a single query. Single molecular magnets are considered ideal for this function due to their cluster of independent spins. A study conducted by Leuenberger and Loss, specifically utilized crystals to amplify the moment of the single spin molecule magnets Mn12 and Fe8. Mn12 and Fe8 were both found to be ideal for memory storage with a retrieval time of approximately 10−10 seconds.[34]

Another approach to information storage with SMM Fe4 involves the application of a gate voltage for a state transition from neutral to anionic. Using electrically gated molecular magnets offers the advantage of control over the cluster of spins during a shortened time scale.[33] The electric field can be applied to the SMM using a tunneling microscope tip or a strip-line. The corresponding changes in conductance are unaffected by the magnetic states, proving that information storage could be performed at much higher temperatures than the blocking temperature.[16] The specific mode of information transfer includes DVD to another readable medium, as shown with Mn12 patterned molecules on polymers.[35]

Another application for SMMs is in magnetocaloric refrigerants . A machine learning approach using experimental data has been able to predict novel SMMs that would have large entropy changes, and therefore more suitable for magnetic refrigeration. Three hypothetical SMMs are proposed for experimental synthesis: ,  ,  .[36] The main SMM characteristics that contribute to the entropy properties include dimensionality and the coordinating ligands.

In addition, single-molecule magnets have provided physicists with useful test-beds for the study of quantum mechanics. Macroscopic quantum tunneling of the magnetization was first observed in Mn12O12, characterized by evenly spaced steps in the hysteresis curve.[37] The periodic quenching of this tunneling rate in the compound Fe8 has been observed and explained with geometric phases.[38]

See also edit

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External links edit

  • Molecular Magnetism Web, Jürgen Schnack

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Not to be confused with Molecule based magnet A single molecule magnet SMM is a metal organic compound that has superparamagnetic behavior below a certain blocking temperature at the molecular scale In this temperature range an SMM exhibits magnetic hysteresis of purely molecular origin 1 2 In contrast to conventional bulk magnets and molecule based magnets collective long range magnetic ordering of magnetic moments is not necessary 2 Although the term single molecule magnet was first employed in 1996 3 the first single molecule magnet Mn12O12 OAc 16 H2O 4 nicknamed Mn12 was reported in 1991 4 5 6 This manganese oxide compound features a central Mn IV 4O4 cube surrounded by a ring of 8 Mn III units connected through bridging oxo ligands and displays slow magnetic relaxation behavior up to temperatures of ca 4 K 7 8 Efforts in this field primarily focus on raising the operating temperatures of single molecule magnets to liquid nitrogen temperature or room temperature in order to enable applications in magnetic memory Along with raising the blocking temperature efforts are being made to develop SMMs with high energy barriers to prevent fast spin reorientation 9 Recent acceleration in this field of research has resulted in significant enhancements of single molecule magnet operating temperatures to above 70 K 10 11 12 13 Contents 1 Measurement 1 1 Arrhenius behavior of magnetic relaxation 1 2 Magnetic blocking temperature 1 3 Intramolecular magnetic exchange 1 4 Barrier to magnetic relaxation 2 Performance 3 Types 3 1 Metal clusters 4 Applications 5 See also 6 References 7 External linksMeasurement editArrhenius behavior of magnetic relaxation edit Because of single molecule magnets magnetic anisotropy the magnetic moment has usually only two stable orientations antiparallel to each other separated by an energy barrier The stable orientations define the molecule s so called easy axis At finite temperature there is a finite probability for the magnetization to flip and reverse its direction Identical to a superparamagnet the mean time between two flips is called the Neel relaxation time and is given by the following Neel Arrhenius equation 14 t 1 t 0 1 exp U e f f k B T displaystyle tau 1 tau 0 1 exp left frac U eff k B T right nbsp where t is the magnetic relaxation time or the average amount of time that it takes for the molecule s magnetization to randomly flip as a result of thermal fluctuations t0 is a length of time characteristic of the material called the attempt time or attempt period its reciprocal is called the attempt frequency its typical value is between 10 9 and 10 10 second Ueff is the energy barrier associated with the magnetization moving from its initial easy axis direction through a hard plane to the other easy axis direction The barrier Ueff is generally reported in cm 1 or in kelvins kB is the Boltzmann constant T is the temperature This magnetic relaxation time t can be anywhere from a few nanoseconds to years or much longer Magnetic blocking temperature edit The so called magnetic blocking temperature TB is defined as the temperature below which the relaxation of the magnetization becomes slow compared to the time scale of a particular investigation technique 15 Historically the blocking temperature for single molecule magnets has been defined as the temperature at which the molecule s magnetic relaxation time t is 100 seconds This definition is the current standard for comparison of single molecule magnet properties but otherwise is not technologically significant There is typically a correlation between increasing an SMM s blocking temperature and energy barrier The average blocking temperature for SMMs is 4K 16 Dy metallocenium salts are the most recent SMM to achieve the highest temperature of magnetic hysteresis greater than that of liquid nitrogen 9 Intramolecular magnetic exchange edit The magnetic coupling between the spins of the metal ions is mediated by superexchange interactions and can be described by the following isotropic Heisenberg Hamiltonian H H B i lt j J i j S i S j displaystyle hat mathcal H HB sum i lt j J i j mathbf S i cdot mathbf S j nbsp where J i j displaystyle J i j nbsp is the coupling constant between spin i operator S i displaystyle mathbf S i nbsp and spin j operator S j displaystyle mathbf S j nbsp For positive J the coupling is called ferromagnetic parallel alignment of spins and for negative J the coupling is called antiferromagnetic antiparallel alignment of spins a high spin ground state a high zero field splitting due to high magnetic anisotropy and negligible magnetic interaction between molecules The combination of these properties can lead to an energy barrier so that at low temperatures the system can be trapped in one of the high spin energy wells 2 17 18 19 20 Barrier to magnetic relaxation edit A single molecule magnet can have a positive or negative magnetic moment and the energy barrier between these two states greatly determines the molecule s relaxation time This barrier depends on the total spin of the molecule s ground state and on its magnetic anisotropy The latter quantity can be studied with EPR spectroscopy 21 Performance editThe performance of single molecule magnets is typically defined by two parameters the effective barrier to slow magnetic relaxation Ueff and the magnetic blocking temperature TB While these two variables are linked only the latter variable TB directly reflects the performance of the single molecule magnet in practical use In contrast Ueff the thermal barrier to slow magnetic relaxation only correlates to TB when the molecule s magnetic relaxation behavior is perfectly Arrhenius in nature The table below lists representative and record 100 s magnetic blocking temperatures and Ueff values that have been reported for single molecule magnets Complex Type TB 100 s K Ueff cm 1 Ref Year Reported Mn12O12 OAc 16 H2O 4 cluster 3 K 42 cm 1 5 4 6 1991 K 18 crown 6 THF 2 Me3Si 2N 2 THF Tb 2 m h2 h2 N2 cluster 14 K 227 cm 1 22 2011 Tb CpiPr5 2 single ion 52 K 1205 cm 1 23 2019 Dy Cpttt 2 B C6F5 4 single ion 56 K 1219 cm 1 10 11 2017 Dy CpiPr4Me 2 B C6F5 4 single ion 62 K 1468 cm 1 12 2018 tBuPO NHiPr 2Dy H2O I3 single ion 2 4 K 452 cm 1 24 2016 Dy CpiPr4H 2 B C6F5 4 single ion 17 K 1285 cm 1 12 2018 Dy CpiPr5 CpMe5 B C6F5 4 single ion 67 K 1541 cm 1 13 2018 Dy CpiPr4Et 2 B C6F5 4 single ion 59 K 1380 cm 1 12 2018 Dy CpiPr5 2 B C6F5 4 single ion 56 K 1334 cm 1 12 2018 Dy OtBu 2 py 5 BPh4 single ion 12 K 1264 cm 1 25 2016 Abbreviations OAc acetate Cpttt 1 2 4 tri tert butyl cyclopentadienide CpMe5 1 2 3 4 5 penta methyl cyclopentadienide CpiPr4H 1 2 3 4 tetra isopropyl cyclopentadienide CpiPr4Me 1 2 3 4 tetra isopropyl 5 methyl cyclopentadienide CpiPr4Et 1 ethyl 2 3 4 5 tetra isopropyl cyclopentadienide CpiPr5 1 2 3 4 5 penta isopropyl cyclopentadienide indicates parameters from magnetically dilute samples 26 Types editMetal clusters edit nbsp Ferritin Metal clusters formed the basis of the first decade plus of single molecule magnet research beginning with the archetype of single molecule magnets Mn12 4 5 6 This complex is a polymetallic manganese Mn complex having the formula Mn12O12 OAc 16 H2O 4 where OAc stands for acetate It has the remarkable property of showing an extremely slow relaxation of their magnetization below a blocking temperature Mn12O12 OAc 16 H2O 4 4H2O 2AcOH which is called Mn12 acetate is a common form of this used in research 27 Single molecule magnets are also based on iron clusters 15 because they potentially have large spin states In addition the biomolecule ferritin is also considered a nanomagnet In the cluster Fe8Br the cation Fe8 stands for Fe8O2 OH 12 tacn 6 8 with tacn representing 1 4 7 triazacyclononane The ferrous cube complex Fe4 sae 4 MeOH 4 was the first example of a single molecule magnet involving an Fe II cluster and the core of this complex is a slightly distorted cube with Fe and O atoms on alternating corners 28 Remarkably this single molecule magnet exhibits non collinear magnetism in which the atomic spin moments of the four Fe atoms point in opposite directions along two nearly perpendicular axes 29 Theoretical computations showed that approximately two magnetic electrons are localized on each Fe atom with the other atoms being nearly nonmagnetic and the spin orbit coupling potential energy surface has three local energy minima with a magnetic anisotropy barrier just below 3 meV 30 Applications edit nbsp One possible use of SMMs is superior magnetic thin films to coat hard disks There are many discovered types and potential uses 31 32 Single molecule magnets represent a molecular approach to nanomagnets nanoscale magnetic particles Due to the typically large bi stable spin anisotropy single molecule magnets promise the realization of perhaps the smallest practical unit for magnetic memory and thus are possible building blocks for a quantum computer 1 Consequently many groups have devoted great efforts into synthesis of additional single molecule magnets Single molecule magnets have been considered as potential building blocks for quantum computers 33 A single molecule magnet is a system of many interacting spins with clearly defined low lying energy levels The high symmetry of the single molecule magnet allows for a simplification of the spins that can be controllable in external magnetic fields Single molecule magnets display strong anisotropy a property which allows a material to assume a variation of properties in different orientations Anisotropy ensures that a collection of independent spins would be advantageous for quantum computing applications A large amount of independent spins compared to a singular spin permits the creation of a larger qubit and therefore a larger faculty of memory Superposition and interference of the independent spins also allows for further simplification of classical computation algorithms and queries Theoretically quantum computers can overcome the physical limitations presented by classical computers by encoding and decoding quantum states Single molecule magnets have been utilized for the Grover algorithm a quantum search theory 34 The quantum search problem typically requests for a specific element to be retrieved from an unordered database Classically the element would be retrieved after N 2 attempts however a quantum search utilizes superpositions of data in order to retrieve the element theoretically reducing the search to a single query Single molecular magnets are considered ideal for this function due to their cluster of independent spins A study conducted by Leuenberger and Loss specifically utilized crystals to amplify the moment of the single spin molecule magnets Mn12 and Fe8 Mn12 and Fe8 were both found to be ideal for memory storage with a retrieval time of approximately 10 10 seconds 34 Another approach to information storage with SMM Fe4 involves the application of a gate voltage for a state transition from neutral to anionic Using electrically gated molecular magnets offers the advantage of control over the cluster of spins during a shortened time scale 33 The electric field can be applied to the SMM using a tunneling microscope tip or a strip line The corresponding changes in conductance are unaffected by the magnetic states proving that information storage could be performed at much higher temperatures than the blocking temperature 16 The specific mode of information transfer includes DVD to another readable medium as shown with Mn12 patterned molecules on polymers 35 Another application for SMMs is in magnetocaloric refrigerants A machine learning approach using experimental data has been able to predict novel SMMs that would have large entropy changes and therefore more suitable for magnetic refrigeration Three hypothetical SMMs are proposed for experimental synthesis Cr 2 Gd 2 OAc 5 displaystyle ce Cr2Gd2 OAc 5 nbsp Mn 2 Gd 2 OAc 5 displaystyle ce Mn2Gd2 OAc 5 nbsp 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