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Mössbauer relaxation spectra in arbitrarily ordered absorbers—Line shape analysis for an iron(II) spincrossover complex in the presence of texture

Peter PoganiuchPeter AdlerHartmut Spiering

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Arrhenius equationNuclear and High Energy PhysicsMaterials scienceCondensed Matter PhysicsMolecular physicsAtomic and Molecular Physics and OpticsSpectral lineCrystallographysymbols.namesakeReaction rate constantMössbauer spectroscopysymbolsPhysical and Theoretical ChemistryAnisotropyAxial symmetryHyperfine structureShape analysis (digital geometry)

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The stochastic theory of Mossbauer line shapes is formulated in a fashion which allows the evaluation of the spectral shapes for absorbers of arbitrary thickness, texture, and an anisotropic Lamb—Mossbauer factor. The results are specialized to a two-state-relaxation model of fluctuating electric hyperfine interaction in the case of an absorber of axially symmetric texture. The formalism is applied to the line shape analysis of Mossbauer spectra of a textured sample of the spin-crossover complex [Fe(mtz)6] (PF6)2 (mtz=1-methyltetrazole). It is found that between 185 and 240 K the rate constants for the HS→LS conversion are temperature independent, whereas an Arrhenius behaviour is found for the LS→HS conversion.

https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02609562