Tuesday, June 14, 2022

A model for light-induced spin-state trapping in spin-crossover materials

 An important challenge required to understand the physical properties of materials that are chemically and structurally complex is to ascertain which microscopic details are important. A related question is at what scale (length, number of atoms, energy) models should be developed.

A specific example is understanding the magnetic properties and state transitions of spin-crossover materials. This is difficult for equilibrium properties, let alone for non-equilibrium properties such as Light-Induced Excited Spin-State Trapping (LIESST). At low temperatures irradiation with light can induce a transition from the equilibrium low-spin state to a long-lived high-spin state, which is only an equilibrium state at higher temperatures. (LIESST gets a lot of attention because of the potential to make optical memories for information storage).

Some of my UQ colleagues recently published a nice paper that elucidates some of the key physics with the proposal and analysis of a (relatively simple) model that captures many details of the experimental data.

Toward High-Temperature Light-Induced Spin-State Trapping in Spin-Crossover Materials: The Interplay of Collective and Molecular Effects

M. Nadeem, Jace Cruddas, Gian Ruzzi, and Benjamin J. Powell

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