Published April 15, 2009 | Version v1
Journal article

Local magnetic susceptibility of the muon in the S=1/2V15 molecular nano-magnet

  • 1. ISIS Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Oxfordshire OX11 0QX (United Kingdom)
  • 2. Department of Physics, Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford University, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU (United Kingdom)
  • 3. Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (Canada)
  • 4. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z1 (Canada)
  • 5. TRIUMF, 4004 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 2A3 (Canada)
  • 6. Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2G7 (Canada)
  • 7. Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z1 (Canada)

Description

We report muon spin rotation measurements of the local magnetic susceptibility around a positive muon in the V15 spin 1/2 molecular nano-magnet. We find that the measured temperature dependence of the local susceptibility agrees with bulk. No temperature dependence is observed below 200 mK, indicating that at these temperatures the V15 molecular spin resides in its S=1/2 ground state.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physb.2008.11.106

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physb.2008.11.106;
PII
S0921-4526(08)00626-1;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physica. B, Condensed Matter
Journal Volume
404
Journal Issue
5-7
Journal Page Range
p. 626-629
ISSN
0921-4526
CODEN
PHYBE3

Conference

Title
11. international conference on muon spin rotation, relaxation and resonance
Dates
21-25 Jul 2008
Place
Tsukuba (Japan)

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Copyright (c) 2008 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.