Competing quantum effects in spin crossover chains: spin-orbit coupling, magnetic exchange, and elastic interactions

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Hauptverfasser: Rist, Finnian, Nourse, Henry L., Powell, Ben J.
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author Rist, Finnian
Nourse, Henry L.
Powell, Ben J.
author_facet Rist, Finnian
Nourse, Henry L.
Powell, Ben J.
contents We derive and study a model of square planar, d8 spin crossover materials that treats elastic, magnetic and spin-orbit interactions on an equal footing. For 1D chains density matrix renormalization group calculations show that the competition between these interactions leads to six different phases. For weak spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and large antiferromagnetic interactions we find a symmetry protected topological (SPT) Haldane phase. This is equivalent to the Haldane-large-D phase transition driven by single ion anisotropy(D) in the spin-one Heisenberg model. For strong SOC the Sz=+-1 HS states are high-energy excitations. Thus, the system can be understood as a transverse field Ising model with the SOC playing the role of the transverse field. Consistent with this, we find a quantum phase transition between the THS phase and a quantum disordered (QD) phase. However, if the magnetic coupling is non-zero or the HS and LS states of a single molecule are non-degenerate the Z2 (Ising) symmetry is broken and the phase transition becomes a crossover. Thus, the QD phase and the THS phases are adiabatically connected, as, equivalently, are the large-D phase of the spin-one Heisenberg model and the quantum disordered phase of the transverse field Ising model. We also find a ferroelastic LS phase, and antierroelastic phase, with alternating HS and LS complexes, and a dimer phase, which results from the competition between antiferromagnetic and antiferroelastic interactions.
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spellingShingle Competing quantum effects in spin crossover chains: spin-orbit coupling, magnetic exchange, and elastic interactions
Rist, Finnian
Nourse, Henry L.
Powell, Ben J.
Strongly Correlated Electrons
Chemical Physics
We derive and study a model of square planar, d8 spin crossover materials that treats elastic, magnetic and spin-orbit interactions on an equal footing. For 1D chains density matrix renormalization group calculations show that the competition between these interactions leads to six different phases. For weak spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and large antiferromagnetic interactions we find a symmetry protected topological (SPT) Haldane phase. This is equivalent to the Haldane-large-D phase transition driven by single ion anisotropy(D) in the spin-one Heisenberg model. For strong SOC the Sz=+-1 HS states are high-energy excitations. Thus, the system can be understood as a transverse field Ising model with the SOC playing the role of the transverse field. Consistent with this, we find a quantum phase transition between the THS phase and a quantum disordered (QD) phase. However, if the magnetic coupling is non-zero or the HS and LS states of a single molecule are non-degenerate the Z2 (Ising) symmetry is broken and the phase transition becomes a crossover. Thus, the QD phase and the THS phases are adiabatically connected, as, equivalently, are the large-D phase of the spin-one Heisenberg model and the quantum disordered phase of the transverse field Ising model. We also find a ferroelastic LS phase, and antierroelastic phase, with alternating HS and LS complexes, and a dimer phase, which results from the competition between antiferromagnetic and antiferroelastic interactions.
title Competing quantum effects in spin crossover chains: spin-orbit coupling, magnetic exchange, and elastic interactions
topic Strongly Correlated Electrons
Chemical Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.12043