Transition metals magnetic behavior

As said, the majority of these cases involve transition metal magnetism outside the scope of this review. Numerous classes of materials showing such behavior have been given special names and most were at least sampled by p.SR, such as Haldane gap (e.g.. 

From a theoretical point of view, the 3d electrons and the 4f electrons independently show some important characteristics, such as the Kondo effect and heavy-fermion behavior. The properties of the electrons have been studied by many researchers. A theoretical analysis of the electrons, however, in a physical sense, is still insufficient for explaining the magnetic properties of lanthanide-transition-metal magnets. The difficulties mainly come from the complexity of the mixture of the 3d and 4f electrons and of the interactions among them in these materials. 

There are no direct Fermi surface studies of the transition metal Laves phases -which is unfortunate in light of the part they have played, and continue to play, in our understanding of f electron behavior. The Np Laves phases have played a special role because they appear to span the critical separation between localized and itinerant behavior (Aldred et al. 1974). The U and Ce transition metal Laves phases occur on the itinerant side of the Hill (1970) plots, but some do approach, and just cross, the critical separation. The transition to magnetic behavior can be very closely approached by considering NpRu Osz-x alloys (Aldred et al. 1975). Because their properties are consistent with the Hill correlation, it would initially appear that one has a nice simple picture based on a direct f-f overlap analysis. Certainly, a Hill plot analysis was part of the motivation for the extensive studies of the Np materials. However, it appears that these materials heavily involve interaction with the ligands. 

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To summarize, one can note that the magnetic characteristics of small clusters of the transition metals vary in a nonmonotonous way as a function of the number of atoms in the cluster. This nonscalable behavior is what makes small clusters interesting and complex at the same time, offering possibilities for future technological applications. 

It should be mentioned that, of the other first-row transition metal oxides crystallizing with the NaCl structure, none has been found to superconduct down to 2.5 K. Some of these oxides undergo magnetic ordering at low temperature and most behave as semiconductors at all temperatures. These would include MnO, FeO, CoO, and NiO. Studies performed on CuO, which has a different crystalline structure, showed only semiconducting behavior to very low temperatures (1.9 K). 

In molecules, the interaction of surrogate spins localized at the atomic centers is calculated describing a picture of spin-spin interaction of atoms. This picture became prominent for the description of the magnetic behavior of transition-metal clusters, where the coupling type (parallel or antiparallel) of surrogate spins localized at the metal centers is of interest. Once such a description is available it is possible to analyze any wave function with respect to the coupling type between the metal centers. Then, local spin operators can be employed in the Heisenberg Spin Hamiltonian. An overview over wave-function analyses for open-shell molecules with respect to local spins can be found in Ref. (118). 

The multifaceted behavior of transition metal complexes calls for not only theoretical explanations within a common conceptual framework but also theoretical tools that are powerful enough to predict the chemical and magnetic behavior of open-shell transition metal ions. Specifically, one looks for theoretical methods to calculate geometries and relative energies for stable species and transition states as well as for methods that allow one to determine spectroscopic parameters with sufficiently predictive accuracy. 

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