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Noncollinear first-principles studies of the spin-electric coupling in frustrated triangular molecular magnets
Cent Michigan Univ, USA;Univ Texas El Paso, USA.
Univ Texas El Paso, USA.
Linnaeus University, Faculty of Technology, Department of Physics and Electrical Engineering. Linnaeus University, Linnaeus Knowledge Environments, Advanced Materials.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4489-7561
Univ Texas El Paso, USA.
2024 (English)In: Physical Review B, ISSN 2469-9950, E-ISSN 2469-9969, Vol. 109, no 21, article id 214407Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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Frustrated triangular molecular magnets (MMs) with antiferromagnetic ground states (GSs) are an important class of magnetic systems with potential applications in quantum information processing. The twofold degenerate GS of these molecules, characterized by spin chirality, can be utilized to encode qubits for quantum computing. Furthermore, because of the lack of inversion symmetry in these molecules, an electric field couples directly states of opposite chirality, allowing a very efficient and fast control of the qubits. In this paper we present a theoretical method to calculate the spin-electric coupling for triangular MMs with effective local spins s larger than 1/2, which is amenable to a first-principles implementation based on density functional theory (DFT). In contrast to MMs where the net magnetization at the magnetic atoms is mu(B)/2 (mu(B) is the Bohr magneton), the DFT treatment of frustrated triangular MMs with larger local magnetizations requires a fully noncollinear approach, which we have implemented in the NRLMOL DFT code. As an example, we have used these methods to evaluate the spin-electric coupling for a spin s = 5/2 {Fe-3} triangular MM, where this effect has been observed experimentally for the first time quite recently. Our theoretical and computational methods will help elucidate and further guide ongoing experimental work in the field of quantum molecular spintronics.

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American Physical Society, 2024. Vol. 109, no 21, article id 214407
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Condensed Matter Physics
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Physics, Condensed Matter Physics
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URN: urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-134820DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.109.214407ISI: 001393416800005Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85195188018OAI: oai:DiVA.org:lnu-134820DiVA, id: diva2:1930771
Available from: 2025-01-23 Created: 2025-01-23 Last updated: 2025-02-04Bibliographically approved

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