Time relaxation of interacting single--molecule magnets

TL;DR

This paper investigates how the relaxation dynamics of interacting single-molecule magnets differ between ordered and disordered systems, revealing new insights into line shape evolution and the influence of lattice structure.

Contribution

It provides a comparative analysis of relaxation behaviors in ordered and disordered SMM systems and explores the evolution of line shapes in hole-digging experiments, including the dependence on lattice structure.

Findings

Relaxation differs qualitatively between disordered and ordered lattices.

Line shapes evolve with time and are generally non-Lorentzian.

The dipolar field scales as t^p, with p depending on lattice structure.

Abstract

We study the relaxation of interacting single--molecule magnets (SMMs) in both spatially ordered and disordered systems. The tunneling window is assumed to be, as in Fe8, much narrower than the dipolar field spread. We show that relaxation in disordered systems differs qualitatively from relaxation in fully occupied cubic and Fe_8 lattices. We also study how line shapes that develop in ''hole--digging'' experiments evolve with time t in these fully occupied lattices. We show (1) that the dipolar field h scales as t^p in these hole line shapes and show (2) how p varies with lattice structure. Line shapes are not, in general, Lorentzian. More specifically, in the lower portion of the hole, they behave as (h/t^p)^{(1/p)-1} if h is outside the tunnel window. This is in agreement with experiment and with our own Monte Carlo results.