Session V43: Low Dimensional Magnetism: Clusters & Molecules
11:15 AM–1:51 PM, Thursday, March 24, 2005
LACC Room: 150C
Sponsoring Unit:
GMAG
Chair: V. Kiryukhin, Rutgers University
Abstract ID: BAPS.2005.MAR.V43.6
Abstract: V43.00006 : Electronic Structure, Magnetic Interactions, and the Role of Ligands in Mn$_n$($n$=4, 12) Single-Molecule Magnets
12:15 PM–12:27 PM
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Authors:
Myung Joon Han
(School of Physics, Seoul National University, Korea)
Taisuke Ozaki
(RICS-AIST, Japan)
Jaejun Yu
(School of Physics, Seoul National University, Korea)
We report our first-principles calculation studies of electronic structure and magnetic properties of Mn$_n$ ($n$=4,12) single-molecule magnets. For the calculations, we used the linear combination of localized pseudo-atomic orbital (LCPAO) method based on the density functional theory within local density approximation (LDA) and LDA+U. To investigate the role of ligands and its contribution to the determination of magnetic properties, we calculated the electronic structures of Mn$_n$ clusters with different ligand configurations. Detailed analysis reveals an important contribution of the bridging carbon atoms, connecting the Mn-O core and the outer ligand complex, to the magnetic ground states of the magnetic molecules. In addition, we calculated the effective exchange-coupling constants among Mn-ions by applying the rigid spin approximation in the non-collinear magnetic perturbation theory within the non-orthogonal LCPAO basis set. The results are in reasonable agreement with the experimental values and the former theoretical ones. We also consider the effect of on-site Coulomb interactions in determination of the magnetic properties of single-moloecule magnets.
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