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Pump-probe experiments on the single-molecule magnet Fe8: measurement of excited level lifetimes
1Institut Néel, CNRS Associé à l'UJF, BP 166, 38042, Grenoble Cedex 9, France.
Abstract:
We present magnetization measurements on the single-molecule magnet Fe8 in the presence of pulsed microwave radiation. A pump-probe technique is used with two microwave pulses with frequencies of 107 and 118 GHz and pulse lengths of several nanoseconds to study the spin dynamics via time-resolved magnetization measurements using a Hall probe magnetometer. We find evidence for short spin-phonon relaxation times of the order of 1 micros. The temperature dependence of the spin-phonon relaxation time in our experiments is in good agreement with previously published theoretical results. We also established the presence of very short energy diffusion times that act on a time scale of about 70 ns.
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