Second-order effects splittings

While all contributions to the spin Hamiltonian so far involve the electron spin and cause first-order energy shifts or splittings in the FPR spectmm, there are also tenns that involve only nuclear spms. Aside from their importance for the calculation of FNDOR spectra, these tenns may influence the FPR spectnim significantly in situations where the high-field approximation breaks down and second-order effects become important. The first of these interactions is the coupling of the nuclear spin to the external magnetic field, called the... 

Here, A is the nearly isotropic nuclear coupling constant, I is the nuclear spin (Iun = I), and m is the particular nuclear spin state. It may be observed that the zero field splitting term D has a second-order effect which must be considered at magnetic fields near 3,000 G (X-band). In addition to this complication nuclear transitions for which Am = 1 and 2 must also be considered. The analysis by Barry and Lay (171) of the Mn2+ spectrum in a CsX zeolite is shown in Fig. 35. From such spectra these authors have proposed that manganese is found in five different sites, depending upon the type of zeolite, the primary cation, and the extent of dehydration. 

FIGURE 5.1 Isotropic hyperfine pattern for 51VIV in S-band. The spectrum is from V0S04 in aqueous solution. Use of the low frequency enhances the second-order effect of unequal splitting between the eight hyperfine lines. 

The superhyperfine splittings are sufficiently small to ignore second-order effects at X-band, and for adducts of the nitrone compounds splitting from the nitrone-N and the beta-H are the only resolved hyperfine interactions, thus affording the extremely simple resonance condition (cf. Equation 5.10)... 

If the degeneracy is lifted completely in first-order or if at least second-order effects do not introduce an additional splitting of degenerate levels, the second-order energy can be expressed as... 

The second-order effect of spin-orbit coupling on the angular dependence of the zero-field splitting has been investigated by Hall and Hameka.457... 

Mossbauer spectroscopy can also be used to obtain information about fine structure parameters like zero-field splitting D and rhombicity parameter E D. The zero-field splitting is a second-order effect, which can be classically visualized as resulting from the circular currents generated in the atomic shell by the electron spin. In Section 3.10.5, we describe how D and E D can be calculated. 

One of the results obtained for tetrahedral centers formed by 3d ions is that one for Mn " " (3d -configuration) in ZnS [47]. The splitting of the " Ti orbital triplet of Mn + ion was analyzed using the second-order effective spin-Hamiltonian and comparing the calculated splittings with the observed ones. The lowest estimate for the JT energy in ZnSMn " " was obtained to be 750 cm [47]. 

In a seminal contribution, Bleaney demonstrated that when the crystal-field splitting of the ground multiplet is smaller or comparable to kT, a situation often met with lanthanide complexes, the anisotropic part of the axial paramagnetic susceptibility tensor originates from second-order effects and can be simply estimated by the product of magnetic constants Cj, characteristics of the electronic configuration of each lanthanide (i.e., Bleaney factor), multiplied by the second-rank crystal-field parameter Bq (Eq. (34), Bleaney, 1972). 

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