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PHYSICAL REVIEW RESEARCH
卷 5, 期 3, 页码 -出版社
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.5.033103
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The magnetic properties of silver clusters with a cobalt impurity were studied experimentally. It was found that when the impurity was encapsulated within the cluster, the magnetic behavior was influenced by the hybridization of the impurity and host electron orbitals, leading to delocalization of valence electrons, spin relaxation, and a low-spin ground state. The occupation of impurity orbitals was determined by spin pairing in the free electron gas formed by the host silver atoms.
The interaction of magnetic dopants with delocalized electron states can result in interesting many-body physics. Here, the magnetic properties of neutral and charged finite silver metal host clusters with a magnetic cobalt atom impurity were investigated experimentally by exploiting the complementary methods of SternGerlach molecular beam deflection and x-ray magnetic circular dichroism spectroscopy and are accompanied by density functional theory calculations and charge transfer multiplet simulations. The influence of the number of valence electrons and the consequences of impurity encapsulation were addressed in free size-selected, singly cobalt-doped silver clusters CoAg0,+ n (n = 2-15). Encapsulation of the dopant facilitates the formation of delocalized electronic shells with complete hybridization of the impurity 3d- and the host 5s-derived orbitals, which results in impurity valence electron delocalization, effective spin relaxation, and a low-spin ground state. In the exohedral size regime, spin pairing in the free electron gas formed by the silver 5s electrons is the dominating driving force determining the local 3d occupation of the impurity and therefore, adjusting the spin magnetic moment accordingly.
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