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Chin. Phys. B, 2011, Vol. 20(9): 097601    DOI: 10.1088/1674-1056/20/9/097601
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Local structure distortion and spin Hamiltonian parameters for Cr3+–VZn tetragonal defect centre in Cr3+ doped KZnF3 crystal

Yang Zi-Yuan(杨子元)
Department of Physics and Information Technology, Baoji University of Arts and Science, Baoji 721007, China
Abstract  The quantitative relationship between the spin Hamiltonian parameters (D, g, Δg) and the crystal structure parameters for the Cr3+—VZn tetragonal defect centre in a Cr3+:KZnF3 crystal is established by using the superposition model. On the above basis, the local structure distortion and the spin Hamiltonian parameter for the Cr3+—VZn tetragonal defect centre in the KZnF_3 crystal are systematically investigated using the complete diagonalization method. It is found that the VZn vacancy and the differences in mass, radius and charge between the Cr3+ and the Zn2+ ions induce the local lattice distortion of the Cr3+ centre ions in the KZnF3 crystal. The local lattice distortion is shown to give rise to the tetragonal crystal field, which in turn results in the tetragonal zero-field splitting parameter D and the anisotropic g factor Δg. We find that the ligand F- ion along [001] and the other five F- ions move towards the central Cr3+ by distances of Δ1 = 0.0121 nm and Δ2 = 0.0026 nm, respectively. Our approach takes into account the spin—orbit interaction as well as the spin—spin, spin—other-orbit, and orbit—orbit interactions omitted in the previous studies. It is found that for the Cr3+ ions in the Cr3+:KZnF3 crystal, although the spin—orbit mechanism is the most important one, the contribution to the spin Hamiltonian parameters from the other three mechanisms, including spin—spin, spin—other-orbit, and orbit—orbit magnetic interactions, is appreciable and should not be omitted, especially for the zero-field splitting (ZFS) parameter D.
Keywords:  spin-Hamiltonian parameter      charge-compensation effect      local structural distortion      complete diagonalization method  
Received:  17 January 2011      Revised:  22 May 2011      Accepted manuscript online: 
PACS:  76.30.Fc (Iron group (3d) ions and impurities (Ti-Cu))  
  71.70.Ch (Crystal and ligand fields)  
  75.10.Dg (Crystal-field theory and spin Hamiltonians)  

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Yang Zi-Yuan(杨子元) Local structure distortion and spin Hamiltonian parameters for Cr3+–VZn tetragonal defect centre in Cr3+ doped KZnF3 crystal 2011 Chin. Phys. B 20 097601

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