Studies of transverse and longitudinal relaxations of $^{55}$Mn in molecular cluster magnet Mn$_{12}$Ac

Abstract

The transverse and longitudinal relaxation rates 1/$T_2$ and 1/$T_1$ of $^{55}$Mn in molecular cluster magnet Mn$_{12}$Ac have been measured al low temperatures down to 200mK and in the fields upto 9T. Both of 1/$T_2$ and 1/$T_1$ exhibit remarkable decreases with decreasing temperature and with increasing field, with the relative relation $T_1/T_2 \approx 200$. In the analysis, we adopt a simple model that the thermal fluctuation of the cluster spin $S$=10 associated with the spin-phonon interactionis, is only due to the excitation to the first excited state from the ground state with the average life-times $τ_ 1$ and $τ_0$ ($τ_ 0$$\gg$$τ_1$). We show that 1/$T_2$ is interpreted in terms of the strong collision regime as given by 1/$τ_ 0$, and that 1/$T_1$ is understood by the high-frequency limit based on standard perturbation treatment for the step-wise fluctuating field, thus being proportional to 1/$τ_0ω_N^2$.

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