Decay of a metastable high-spin state in spin-crossover compounds: mean first passage time analysis

Low-temperature lifetimes of metastable

Low-temperature lifetimes of metastable high-spin states in spin-crossover and in low-spin iron(II) compounds: The rule and exceptions to the rule

✍ Andreas Hauser; Cristian Enachescu; Max Lawson Daku; Alfredo Vargas; Nahid Amstu 📂 Article 📅 2006 🏛 Elsevier Science 🌐 English ⚖ 431 KB

The high-spin → low-spin relaxation in spin-crossover compounds can be described as non-adiabatic multi-phonon process in the strong coupling limit, in which the low-temperature tunnelling rate increases exponentially with the zero-point energy difference between the two states. Based on the hypothe