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Nuclear magnetic ordening in fluorene
P. Verheij, W. Wenckebach
To cite this version:
P. Verheij, W. Wenckebach. Nuclear magnetic ordening in fluorene. Journal de Physique I, EDP
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Classification
Physics
Abstracts75.25 76.60 76.70E
Nuclear magnetic ordening in fluorene
P.F.A.
Verheij
and W.Th. WenckebachFaculty
ofApplied Physics,
DelftUniversity
ofTechnology,
P.O.B. 5046, 2600 GADelft,
The Netherlands
(Received
24 March 1993, revised 28 June 1993,accepted
28July
1993)
R6sumd. Ce travail discute la possibilit4 d'obtenir de l'ordre
magn4tique
nuc14aire dansdes cristaux mo14culaires de fluorene par
polarisation dynamique
nucl6aire(DNP)
suivi pardesaimantation
adiabatique
nuc16aire dans le r6f6rentiel tournant(ADRF).
On trouve que cet ordre est obtenu de lafawn
laplus
facile orientant Bo I I l'axec et choisissant T < 0- Alors
une
polarisation
nuc16aire de 26% suffit pour obtenirun ordre
ferromagn6tique. L'importance
du fluorene est donn6e par lapossibilit6
d'utiliser destriplets photoexcit6s
pour la DNP-Alors,
pendant
etaprbs
la ADRF l'6chantillon ne contient pas des centresparamagn6tiques
et l'6tude de l'ordremagn6tique
nucl6aire estplus
pure.Abstract The present paper considers the
possibility
to obtaina
magnetic ordering
of the protonspins
in molecularcrystals
of fluoreneusing dynamic
nuclearpolarization (DNP)
followedby
adibaticdemagnetization
in therotating
frame(ADRF).
It is found that such anordering
is most easily reached for T < 0 and 80
II c-axis. Then a polarization of
only
26% needs to bereached
by
DNP in order to obtain aferromagnetic ordering.
Theimportance
of fluorene liesin the
possibility
to usephotoexcited
triplet states for DNP. Then,during
and after the ADRF thesample
is free ofparamagnetic
centres and a cleanerstudy
of theordering
can be made.1 Introduction.
Nuclear
spins
may ordermagnetically
due to nuclearexchange
interactions asoccurring
e.g.in
~He iii,
or to indirectspin-spin
interactions as observed e.g. inTmP04 (2],
orsimply
tolong
rangedipolar
interactions. The firstexample
of this latterdipolar magnetic ordering
of nuclearspins
wasproduced by Abragam
and coworkers.They
created thisordering
in twosteps. First,
the nuclearspins
werepolarized by Dynamic
Nuclear Polarization(DNP).
Thenan adiabatic
demagnetization
in therotating
frame(ADRF)
wasperformed
on the NuclearMagnetic
Resonance(NMR)
transition to cool thespin system
down to sub-micro Kelvintemperatures.
Suchexperiments
have beenperformed
onsimple
cubicsystems
formedby
the nuclearspins IF
" of~~F
inCaF2 (3],
the nuclearspin ILi
" ~ of~Li
andIF
"IH
" of2 2 2
19F
or protons in LiF and LiH[4,
5] and thehexagonal quasi
two-dimensionalsystem
ofproton
2260 JOURNAL DE
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I N°11spins
inCa(OH)2 (6, 7].
A second method toproduce dipolar magnetic ordering
of nuclearspins
was introducedby
Huiki et al. [8].Using
brute force adiabaticdemagnetization they
produced
anantiferromagnetic ordering
of thespins
of the Cu nuclei in metalic copper.The
present
paper discusses thefeasibility
of animprovement
of the method introducedby Abragarn
and coworkers. In their firstcooling step (conventional DNP)
one uses microwaveirradiation to transfer the electron
spin polarization
ofpermanent paramagnetic
centres to the nuclearspins. However,
theseparamagnetic
centres lead to nuclearspin-lattice
relaxation and hence to fastheating
of the nuclearspin system
after theADRF,
so the ordered state israpidly destroyed.
The use of Microwave InducedOptical
Nuclear Polarization(MIONP) [9,
10]instead of DNP would solve this
problem.
Thusfar,
the bestexample
isprotonated
fluorenedoped
withphenanthrene. Using UV-light,
thephenanthrene
molecules arephoto-excited
intotheir lowest
triplet state, creating
electronspins
S= I.
Operating
at T = 1AK,
in amagnetic
field
(80(
" 2.7T,
andusing
a microwavefrequency
of 75 GHz to transfer the electronspin polarization
to the protons, a protonspin polarization
of 42% has been achievedill].
Aftershutting
off the excitationlight,
thephenanthrene
moleculesdecay
to theirdiamagnetic ground
state and the nuclear
spin-lattice
relaxation becomes very slow. At IA K and 2.7 Tdipolar
order relaxes with a time constant of 2.3 x
10~
s, which is more than three orders of
magnitude longer
than in the presence ofparamagnetic
centresill].
The aim of this article is to
investigate
how much nuclearpolarization
isrequired
to createmagnetic dipolar
ordered states in fluorene. Thus we can evaluate whether MIONP is devel-oped
farenough
to start studies ofdipolar magnetic ordening
of nuclei. As is wellknown,
aftercooling
the nuclearspins
with DNP and asubsequent ADRF,
thesespins
stillexperi-
ence a
strong externally applied magnetic
fieldBo,
sothey
order due to the trucateddipolar
interaction
7i
=
~j A,j (31]1]
-1'.IJ) (I)
>,J
In this Hamiltonian
~~~
~~
~~~ j~~~~~~
~°~ (~
~ j) (2)
u
A
"
~' (3)
where r~ is the vector
connecting spins
I~ andIJ,
9~j is theangle
between r~ andBo
and r,j =(r,j (. Finally,
~iI is thegyromagnetic
ratio of the nuclearspins.
By choosing
thesign
of thefrequency change during
the ADRF one has thepossibility
tocreate at will
negative
orpositive spin temperatures.
In the former case the energy tends to amaximum,
while in the latter case it tends to a minimum. The case of the truncateddipolar
interaction allow for two
types
oforderings, longitudinal orderings
where the nuclearspins
are directed
parallel
oranti-parallel
to theexternally applied magnetic
field and transverseorderings
wherethey
are oriented in theplane perpendicular
to80.
In the effective fieldapproximation,
eachlongitudinal magnetic
structure with an energy+ED
has acounterpart
in a transversemagnetic
structure with an energyED (12]. Therefore,
topredict
which2
magnetic
structureactually
occurs, oneonly
needs to determine whichlongitudinal
structurescorrespond
to maximum and minimum energy.Subsequently,
one can deducedirectly
whether transverse structures withhigher
or lowerenergies
exist.The
crystaline
structure of fluorene is verycomplicated.
As shown infigure I,
the or- thorhombic unit cell contains 4 molecules and 40 protonspins [13].
Therefore we did notventure to calculate the space Fourier transform of the
coupling
constantsA,j [14]. Instead,
todetermine the structure of the ordered
phases,
we use a Monte Carlo simulation of the nuclearspin system.
This method has proven togive
reliable results for truncateddipolar
interactions between nuclearspins
in asimple
cubicarrangement
[15] and the fulldipolar
interaction be-tween nuclear
spins
in a face centered cubic lattice[16].
Fornegative spin
temperatures, wealways
find alongitudinal ferromagnetic ordering,
while forpositive temperature
theordering
is
always
transverseferromagnetic
or helicoidal.Next, using
the molecular fieldapproximation [12, 14],
we calculate the criticalpolarization,
which must beminimally produced by
MIONP in order to reach an ordered state after the ADRF. Fornegative spin temperature
andBo
Ic-axis,
we find thatonly 26%
nuclearspin polarization
is needed for this purpose. In exper-iments the observed critical
polarization
isusually
about 1.3 timeshigher [12],
which is still below42%.
So aferromagnetic ordering
of the protonspins
is within reach.b-axis
I
~
a-axis
Fig.
I. Thecrystallographic
unit cell offluorene,
with the definitions of thecrystal
axes.2. Monte Carlo simulations.
In the
proposed experiment,
nucleardipolar magnetic ordening
in fluorene is createdby
firstpolarizing
the nucleiby
MIONP. After MIONP the strong externalmagnetic
fieldBo
is orientedalong
one of thecrystaline
a, b or c-axes(see Fig. I)
and an ADRF isperformed by applying
a
strong
rf-field with afrequency
uJ andsweeping
thisfrequency
towards the nuclear Larmorfrequency
UJI= ~iI
(Bo( Finally,
theamplitude
of the rf-field is reduced to zero. Note that the strongmagnetic
field is stillpresent.
To describe the nuclear
spin system
we use a frame of referencerotating
with the nuclear Larmorfrequency
about the direction of the externalmagnetic
field. Then the nuclearspin system
is describedby
the truncateddipolar
interaction(I)
between the nuclearspins.
For theprediction
of theproperties
of the ordered states we calculate thedipolar
energy,using
the molecular field
approximation.
As discussed in the introduction weonly
need to calculatethe energy
ED
of so-calledlongitudinally
ordered states, where thespins
P are oriented eitherparallel
oranti-parallel
toBo.
The energy oftransversely
ordered states can be deduced from2262 JOURNAL DE
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I N°11these values. Then this energy is
given by
~D j ~ ~~jPiPj> (4)
'>J
where p, =<
Ij
>II
is thepolarization
of the i~~spin.
In order to determine the structure of thedipolar ordening, I.e.,
to determine for eachspin
whether p, ispositive
ornegative,
we firstconsider the case that the
dipolar temperature
is very close to zero[21],
so pi m ~l.Then,
~D ~ ~ljflJ' (~)
l,j
where
f~
is the structureparameter: f~
= +I if thespins
P and IJ areparallel, fij
= -I in theopposite
case. We note that thedipolar
interaction islong
range so the sum(5)
isgenerally dependent
on theshape
of thesample.
We use a Monte Carlo simulation
[17, 15]
to determine thespin configuration I.e.,
the factorsf~, yielding
thehighest
and lowest value ofED
Our model consists of a smallrectangular crystal
with sixcrystallographic
unit cells[13], containing
in total 240proton spins.
The Monte Carlo calculation is started with random values for pi. Then thedipolar
energyED
is calculatedusing equation (5).
We restrict the sum tospins
where r~ < 81. Thus,
on the average 48 to 96neighbouring spins
are taken into each sum,depending
on the distancebetween the
spins
and the surface of thecrystal.
Then we allow onespin
toflip
and calculate thedipolar
energyagain.
This newdipolar
energy,E[,
iscompared
with theprevious
one,ED
Weaccept
thespin flip
ife~i
,> R
(6)
where R is a
pseudorandom
rational number between 0 and I determined in the way described in[18], kB
is Boltzmann's constant andTD
is chosen to be ~l nK which is far below theexpected
transitiontemperature.
If thespin flip
is notaccepted,
thespin
is set back in itsoriginal
orientation. We continue thisprocedure by sequentially flipping
all 240proton spins.
After
passing
about 20 timesthrough
these 240spins,
a stablespin configuration
is reached where thedipolar
energy is maximal for TD " -I nK and minimal forTD
= +I nK.In order to characterize the thus obtained
spin configuration,
weperform
a space Fourier transformyielding
240
p(k)
#~ pze~~'~', (7)
1=1
and
investigate
whetherp(k)
has aprofound
maximum. If such a maximum is found for a value of k such that=
27r(k(~l
is of the order of the distance between the nuclearspins,
the order isantiferromagnetic.
If however=
27r(k(~l
iscomparable
to the dimensions of themodel,
the nuclei order in aferromagnetic
domain structure.We
performed
these Monte Carlo simulations for the externalmagnetic
fieldBo
I to the a, ban c-axis. As an
example figure
2 shows thedevelopment
of the totalmagnetization
and the total energy of thespin system during
the Monte Carloprocedure
for the case thatmagnetic
field is orientedalong
thecrystal
b-axis.Figure
3 shows theb-component
of the space Fouriertransform
(7)
of the obtained structure as a function ofkb.
Aprofound peak
is observed forkb
" 0.421
~.Table I sumniarizes the results for the
dipolar
energy for each direction ofBo
and for bothsigns
ofTD.
The first columngives
thesign
ofTD.
The next columngives
the directionM~
~~
0.4lx lo
(a.u.> ~~
0
oi
o
lxlo~
°0 0.5x10~ lx10~
Fig.
2.Example
ofa Monte Carlo simulation of
ED
andmagnetization
of the model. Orientationof the
magnetic
field isalong
theb-axis,
TD " ~l nK.0 0.2 DA
k~
IA
'~Fig.
3.Space
Fourier transform of the obtained orderedphase
with themagnetic
fieldalong
the b-axis, TD" -I nK.
of
Bo.
Thefollowing
3 columns show the dimensions ea, eb and ec of the model used for the Monte Carlo simulation in the a, b and c-direction(a
=
8.3651,
b=
5.6541,
c =
18.745
1,
see
Fig.
I).
The sixth columnpresents
thedipolar
energy of thelongitudinal orderings
simulated in our Monte Carlo calculations. Note that this value stilldepends
on theshape
of thecrystal.
Therefore the results aregiven
inarbitrary
units.Using
theargument presented
in the introduction we have calculated the maximum and minimum
dipolar energies
of the transverseorderings.
These are shown in the last column of table I. As forTD
<0,
the energy should bemaximal,
theordering
isalways longitudinal,
while forTD
>0,
where the energy should beminimal,
theordering
isalways
transverse.Furthermore,
for agiven
direction of themagnetic
field the structure of thelongitudinal ordering
atnegative temperature
is the same2264 JOURNAL DE
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I N°11Table I. Monte Carlo results for
ED
The units arearbitrary
Note that the resultsdepend
on
sample shape.
model size
ED ED
to ea eb ec
< 0 a 3a 2b c
+0.889 +0.154
< 0 2a 3b c
+0.777 +0.189
< 0 c 2a 3c
+0.671
> a c -0.445
> 0 b 2a 3b c -0.378 -0.388
> 0 c 2a 3c -0.266 -0.336
as the structure of the transverse
ordering
atpositive temperature.
We now consider these ordered structures in more detail. Table II
presents
the values ofka,
kb andkc
wherep(k)
has aprofound
maximum for thelongitudinal orderings expected
atTD
< o. Note that the same values ofka,
kb andkc
areexpected
for the transverseorderings
expected
atTD
> 0. The last colunin shows thewavelength
=
27r(k(~l
of the ordered struc-ture. From table
II,
it is evident that k isalways
found to beparallel
toBo. Furthermore,
all values =
27r(k(~l
are muchlarger
than thetypical
distance between nuclearspins
and of the order of the size of the model used for the Monte Carlo simulation. The values ofare also incommensurate with the size of the unit cell
excluding
some kind oflong wavelength
"antiferromagnetic" ordering.
Therefore we conclude that atnegative spin temperatures
fer-romagnetic longitidinal orderings
are obtained.Again using
theargument
of theintroduction,
this means that at
positive temperature ferromagnetic
transverseorderings
arepredicted.
Wenote however that in this latter case, the
ordering might
also be helicoidal[12].
Table II. Monte Carlo results for the structure of the
longitudinal ordenings
atTD
< 0.TD Bo
model sizeka ka ka
=
I to ea eb e~
)~~ )~l )~l 27r/(k(
< 0 a 3a 2b c 0.46 0.00 0.00 13.6
< 0 b 2a 3b c 0.00 0.42 0.00 14.8
< 0 c 2a b 3c 0.00 0.00 0.33 18.8
3.
Properties
of theferromagnetic phases.
We now
proceed
to calculate thedipolar
energy perspin,
the critical temperature and the criticalpolarization
needed to reach the threeferromagnetic phases
found above. One coulduse the Monte Carlo method for this purpose
[19]. However,
to save numerical time we used the well proven molecular field method introducedby
Goldman[14].
We first consider theorderings
at
negative temperature.
Front the Monte Carlosiniulations,
we conclude that the nuclearspin
system
orders as a so-called ferro-sandwich for all three orientations of themagnetic
field. Thisordering
is characterizedby
a domainstructure,
where the domains have theshape
oflarge
flat
pancakes,
with their surfaceperpendicular
to theexternally applied magnetic
field.We first calculate the
dipolar
energy of the nuclearspin system
atTD
" 0. Goldman[14]
calculated the
dipolar
energy of the i~~spin
in the case of a ferro-sandwich. The result isgiven by
~~ ~~
~~~ ~ ~)~~~~ ~
~~~
j #
I r~j < RHere the contribution of all
spins
IJ within asphere
with radius R is calculatedby
discretesummation,
while the contribution ofspins
IJ that are further away isapproximated by
anintegral.
To obtain the total
dipolar
energy perspin,
we need to calculate the sum of thedipolar energies
of the individualspins
ED
"f
El. (9)
2n
Note that a factor is introduced because the interaction between two
given spins
is encoun- tered twice in the sums inequations (8)
and(9).
In fluorene there are 40 differentproton
sites in thecrystallographic
unit cell.However,
due to thesymmetry
of thecrystal (Pnam),
thereare
only
n= 12
magnetically inequivalent proton
sites so the summation inequation (9)
needs to be taken over these 12 sitesonly.
The calculation of
ED
isperformed numerically.
Tostudy
the convergence of the sum inequation (8),
we increase the radius Rstepwise
to 2001
where thesphere
contains about 1.2 x10~ spins.
Clean curves withincreasing
R are obtained. From these courves the limit for R - cc is obtained. The results arepresented
in the first three rows of table III. We estimate the relative accuracy of these limits to be 2 x10~~
Table III.
Properties
for theferromagnetic ordening
of theproton spins
of fluorene atTD
< o for diiTerent orientations of themagnetic field,
thedipolar energies
aregiven
perspin.
TD Bo
T~P~
(
(I~K)
< 0 a
+0.940
-0.469 0.40< 0
+0.543
-0.271 0.85< c
> 0 a -0.470
+0.235
0.80> 0 b -0.271
+0.136
1.70> 0 c -0.540
+0.269
0.522266 JOURNAL DE
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I N°11The critical
spin temperature Tc
where thephase
transition from theparamagnetic
to theferromagnetic phase
occurs is calculated fromED using [20]
Tc
=~
ED- (10)
2kB
The values of
Tc
are alsogiven
in the first three rows in table III. We note however that inour case these results can
only
beapproximate
because the Weiss field is different at differentproton sites,
so the so-calledstrong
constraint [21] is not fulfilled.Again using
theargument presented
in theintroduction,
also the values ofED
andTc
for the transverseorderings
atpositive spin temperature
can be found. These are shown in the last three rows of table III.Finally
we determine the criticalpolarization Pc,
which must be reachedby
MIONP in order to obtain theferromagnetic orderings by
asubsequent
ADRF.According
to Goldman[14]
p ~e I
@lLo 'fjh~
If ~
l 3cos29~
~~ 8 47r
kBT~
nr3
IIi=i j iJ
The
dipole
sum convergesrapidly
and is calculatednumerically
with the same accuracy asED
For bothpositive
andnegative temperature
and for each of the three directions ofBo
theresulting
criticalpolarizations
are alsogiven
in table III. Note that the result forTD
> 0 andBo
I b-axes islarger
than I.Evidently,
our method fails for this case.4 Conclusion.
Using
Monte Carlo methods we find that themagnetic dipolar
orderedphase
of the protonspins
of fluorene is
expected
to belongitudinally ferromagnetic
fornegative
nuclearspin temperature
and transverse
ferromagnetic
or helicoidal forpositive temperature. Using
the molecular fieldmethod of Goldman
[14]
we calculated the criticalpolarizations
for each of theseorderings.
It is found that the case thatTD
< 0 and Bii c,axis is the most favourable for
creating
adipolar magnetic ordering
in fluorene.Then, according
to the molecular fieldapproximation
a protonspin polarization
ofonly 26%
is needed. It is noted that in actualexperiments
the criticalpolarization
istypically
a factor 1.3higher [14]. Still,
as at present 42Yo can be reached withMIONP,
such anordering
is well within reach.Acknowledgements.
The authors thank J. Schmidt for many
helpful
andstimulating
discussions. This work ispart
of the research programme of"Stichting
voor Fundamenteel Onderzoek der MaterieIF-O-M-)" financially supported by
"NederlandseOrganisatie
voorWetenschappelijk
Under- zoek(N.W.O.)".
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