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Infrared study of spin crossover Fe-picolylamine complex
Infrared (IR) absorption spectroscopy has been used to probe the evolution of
microscopic vibrational states upon the temperature- and photo-induced spin
crossovers in [Fe(2-picolylamine)3]Cl2EtOH (Fe-pic). To overcome the small
sizes and the strong IR absorption of the crystal samples used, an IR
synchrotron radiation source and an IR microscope have been used. The obtained
IR spectra of Fe-pic show large changes between high-spin and low-spin states
for both the temperature- and the photo- induced spin crossovers. Although the
spectra in the temperature- and photo-induced high-spin states are relatively
similar to each other, they show distinct differences below 750 cm-1. This
demonstrates that the photo-induced high-spin state involves microscopically
different characters from those of the temperature-induced high-spin state. The
results are discussed in terms of local pressure and structural deformations
within the picolylamine ligands, and in terms of their possible relevance to
the development of macroscopic photo-induced phase in Fe-pic.Comment: 6 pages (text) and 6 figures,submitted to J. Phys. Soc. Jp
Phase Transition in a One-Dimensional Extended Peierls-Hubbard Model with a Pulse of Oscillating Electric Field: I. Threshold Behavior in Ionic-to-Neutral Transition
Photoinduced dynamics of charge density and lattice displacements is
calculated by solving the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation for a
one-dimensional extended Peierls-Hubbard model with alternating potentials for
the mixed-stack organic charge-transfer complex, TTF-CA. A pulse of oscillating
electric field is incorporated into the Peierls phase of the transfer integral.
The frequency, the amplitude, and the duration of the pulse are varied to study
the nonlinear and cooperative character of the photoinduced transition. When
the dimerized ionic phase is photoexcited, the threshold behavior is clearly
observed by plotting the final ionicity as a function of the increment of the
total energy. Above the threshold photoexcitation, the electronic state reaches
the neutral one with equidistant molecules after the electric field is turned
off. The transition is initiated by nucleation of a metastable neutral domain,
for which an electric field with frequency below the linear absorption peak is
more effective than that at the peak. When the pulse is strong and short, the
charge transfer takes place on the same time scale with the disappearance of
dimerization. As the pulse becomes weak and long, the dimerization-induced
polarization is disordered to restore the inversion symmetry on average before
the charge transfer takes place to bring the system neutral. Thus, a
paraelectric ionic phase is transiently realized by a weak electric field. It
is shown that infrared light also induces the ionic-to-neutral transition,
which is characterized by the threshold behavior.Comment: 24 pages, 11 figure
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Correlations of the distribution of spin states in spin crossover compounds
Short range correlations of the distribution of high spin (HS) and low spin (LS) states show up in thermal spin transition curves, decay curves of the light induced metastable HS state (LIESST state), and in structural features during the spin transitions. Correlations are due to short range interactions between the spin crossover molecules. Short range interactions may compete with omnipresent long range interactions and give rise to interesting spin transition phenomena. In this paper, the effect of correlations on the thermal spin transition in the mixed crystal system [FexZn1âx(pic)3]Cl2·EtOH (pic=picolylamine) is discussed. In particular the step in the thermal transition curve is a direct consequence of such correlations. In addition, the decay of the metastable HS state of the pure iron compound at ca. 20 K can be significantly changed by preparing metastable HS states with a random distribution over the lattice sites. Both experiments could be well reproduced by Monte Carlo simulations. In the orthorhombic modification of the compound Fe[5NO2-sal-N(1,4,7,10)]([2,2'-(2,5,8,11-tetraazadodeca-1,11-diene-1,12-diyl)4-nitrophenolato] (2-)-N2, N2',N2'',N2''',O1, O1']Fe(II)) a commensurable superstructure has been found. This compound represents the first example of a stable infinite range correlation of the spin states over the lattice sites
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