Diabolical Points in Molecular Magnets with a Four-Fold Easy Axis

Chang-Soo Park; Anupam Garg

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Diabolical Points in Molecular Magnets with a Four-Fold Easy Axis

Chang-Soo Park·Anupam Garg

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We study the points of degeneracy (diabolical points) in magnetic molecules such as Mn_{12}-acetate that have an easy axis of four-fold symmetry. This is done for general magnetic field that need not be oriented along a high-symmetry direction. We develop a perturbative technique that gives the diabolical points as the roots of a small number of polynomials in the transverse component of the magnetic field and the fourth order basal plane anisotropy. In terms of these roots we obtain approximate analytic formulas that apply to any system with total spin S \le 10. The analytic results are found to compare reasonably well with exact numerical diagonalization for the case of Mn12. In addition, the perturbation theory shows that the diabolical points may be indexed by the magnetic quantum numbers of the levels involved, even at large transverse fields. Certain points of degeneracy are found to be mergers (or near mergers) of two or three diabolical points beacuse of the symmetry of the problem.

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Chang-Soo Park, Anupam Garg. 2000-10-24. Diabolical Points in Molecular Magnets with a Four-Fold Easy Axis. https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0010373

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