Effects of Vibronic Dynamics of Cu(H_2O)_6 Complexes and Electron Spin Relaxation in Temperature Dependence of EPR Linewidth in Diamagnetic Tutton Salt Single Crystals

• Authors: S. Hoffmann , J. Goslar
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

EPR linewidth of Cu^{2+} in the Tutton salt crystals weakly depends on temperature at low temperatures and then it rapidly grows above 60 K. We present detailed results of measurements and analysis for ^{63}Cu^{2+} in K_2Zn(SO_4)_2·6 H_2O, K_2 Zn(SO_4)_2·6D_2O, (NH_4)_2Mg(SO_4)_2·6H_2O and Cs_2Zn (SO_4)_2·6H_2O in a temperature range of 4.2-300 K and compare them with already published electron spin-lattice relaxation data. The relaxation contributes weakly to the linewidth which is dominated by molecular dynamics and grows exponentially with temperature. To describe this we are discussing the influence of jumps between two sites of Cu^{2+} complexes in a slow motion region where the sites are differently thermally populated. This case has not been considered so far. We have derived appropriate expressions describing the contribution of jumps to the linewidth which allows the determination of the jump rate and energy difference δ_{A,B} between the two sites being two Jahn-Teller distorted configurations of the vibronic Cu(H_2O)_6 complexes. The jump rate 1/τ strongly depends on temperature and reaches 10^9 s^{-1} at room temperature, whereas theδ_{A,B} varies from 117 cm^{-1} for K_2Zn(SO_4)_2·6D_2O to 422 cm^{-1} for Cs_2Zn(SO_4)_2·6 H_2O. The comparison with vibronic level splitting, which varies in the range of 67-102 cm^{-1}, indicates that the reorientation mechanism involves phonon induced tunnelling via excited vibronic levels. These reorientations do not contribute, however, to the spin-lattice relaxation which is governed by ordinary two-phonon relaxation processes in the whole temperature range. Thus, the reorientations and spin relaxation are two independent phenomena contributing to the total linewidth.

Keywords

EN

63.90.+t; 76.30.-v

Discipline

• 63.90.+t: Other topics in lattice dynamics (restricted to new topics in section 63)
• 76.30.-v: Electron paramagnetic resonance and relaxation(see also 33.35.+r Electron resonance and relaxation in atomic and molecular physics; 87.80.Lg Magnetic and paramagnetic resonance in biological physics)

• Publisher: Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta Physica Polonica A
• Year: 2006
• Volume: 110
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 807-816

Dates

published

2006-12

received

2006-10-02

Contributors

author

S. Hoffmann

• Institute of Molecular Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Smoluchowskiego 17, 60-179 Poznań, Poland

author

J. Goslar

• Institute of Molecular Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Smoluchowskiego 17, 60-179 Poznań, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12693/APhysPolA.110.807