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Communication
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2009, 11, 7545 - 7548, DOI: 10.1039/b908110k
The giant magnetic anisotropy energy of Fe+ ions in SrCl2
Pablo Garcia-Fernandez, Florian Senn, Claude A. Daul, Jose Antonio Aramburu, Maria Teresa Barriuso and Miguel Moreno
We show that values of the magnetic anisotropy energy (MAE), which are about two orders of magnitude larger than the usual ones for transition metal cations in insulators (
0.01–1 cm-1), can be found for the less common ion Fe+. In SrCl2
:Fe+, the MAE is 93 cm-1 when calculated using second-order perturbation multi-configurational calculations (CASPT2) while a similar value is found using multi-reference density functional theory (MR-DFT). This result is even larger than other recently reported giant MAEs for atoms on surfaces or magnetic clusters. The microscopic origin of this giant MAE is discussed in detail.
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