Open AccessLocal structure distortion and the spin-Hamiltonian parameters for Fe3+-doped ZnGa2O4 crystal materials
Author(s) -
Ziyuan Yang
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
wuli xuebao
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.199
H-Index - 47
ISSN - 1000-3290
DOI - 10.7498/aps.63.177501
Subject(s) - zeeman effect , condensed matter physics , hamiltonian (control theory) , ion , physics , doping , crystal (programming language) , crystal structure , superposition principle , zero field splitting , materials science , magnetic field , crystallography , chemistry , quantum mechanics , spin polarization , mathematical optimization , mathematics , programming language , electron , computer science
Relations between the spin-Hamiltonian (SH) parameters including the second-order zero-field splitting (ZFS) parameter D, the fourth-order ZFS parameter (a-F), the Zeeman g-factors: g//, g, g(=g//-g) and the structural parameters of ZnGa2O4:Fe3+ crystals have been established by means of the microscopic spin Hamiltonian theory and Newman's crystal field (CF) superposition model. On the basis of this, the SH parameters for Fe3+ magnetic ions in ZnGa2O4:Fe3+ crystals are investigated theoretically using the CFA/MSH (crystal field analysis/microscopic spin-Hamiltonian) software based on the full configuration complete diagonalization method. It is found that the theoretically calculated parameters including the ZFS parameters D, (a-F), and the Zeeman g-factors: g//, g, g(=g//-g) for ZnGa2O4:Fe3 + crystals are in good agreement with experimental data when taking into account the lattice distortions: R=0.0487 nm and =0.192. This investigation reveals that there is a slight local structure distortion due to Fe3 + ions in ZnGa2O4:Fe3+ crystals, but the site of Fe3+ still retains D3d symmetry. On the other hand, it is found for Fe3+ ions in ZnGa2O4:Fe3+ crystals that the contribution to the SH parameters from the spin-orbit (SO) mechanism is the most important one, whereas the contributions to the SH parameters from other four mechanisms, including the spin-spin (SS), spin-other-orbit (SOO), orbit-orbit (OO), and SO-SS-SOO-OO mechanisms, are small.