Thematic List of VIV15 Publications
(List made by Prof. B. Tsukerblat)

Synthesis and Structure

  • A. Müller. J. Döring
    "A Novel Heterocluster with D3-Symmetry Containing Twenty-One Core Atoms: [AsIII6VIV15O42(H2O)]6-"
    Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl. 1988, 27, 1721

  • D. Gatteschi, L. Pardi, A.-L. Barra, A. Müller. J. Döring
    "Layered magnetic structure of a metal cluster ion"
    Nature 1991, 354, 463-465

  • Reviews and General Properties

  • D. Gatteschi, L. Pardi, A.-L. Barra, A. Müller
    "Polyoxovanadates: The Missing Link between Simple Paramagnets and Bulk Magnets?"
    Mol. Eng. 1993, 3, 157-169

  • B. Barbara
    "On the Richness of Supra-Molecular Chemistry and its Openings in Physics"
    J. Mol. Struct. 2003, 656, 135-140

  • P. Kögerler, B. Tsukerblat, A. Müller
    "Structure-Related Frustrated Magnetism of Nanosized Polyoxometalates: Aesthetic Beauty and Properties in Harmony"
    Dalton Trans. 2009 (invited perspective article), to be submitted

  • Dynamical Properties, Relaxation, Non-Adiabatic Transitions, Dielectric Properties

  • S. Miyashita
    "Dynamics of magnetization with an inversion of the magnetic field"
    J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 1995, 64, 3207-3214

  • S. Miyashita
    "Observation of the energy gap due to the quantum tunneling making use of the Landau-Zener mechanism"
    J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 1996, 65, 2734-2735

  • B. Barbara, I. Chiorescu, R. Giraud, A. G. M. Jansen, A. Ganeschi
    "Mesoscopic spin tunneling in molecular crystals"
    J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 2000, 69, 383-394

  • I. Chiorescu, W. Wernsdorfer, A. Müller, H. Bögge, B. Barbara
    "Butterfly hysteresis loop and dissipative spin reversal in the S=1/2, V15 molecular complex"
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 2000, 84, 3454-3461

  • I. Chiorescu, W. Wernsdorfer, A. Müller, H. Bögge, B. Barbara
    "Non-adiabatic Landau-Zener transitions in low-spin molecular magnet V15"
    J. Mag. Mag. Mat. 2000, 221, 103-109

  • K. Zvezdin , V. I. Plis, A. I. Popov, B. Barbara
    "Quantum transitions and magnetization of the magnetic V15 cluster in strong magnetic field"
    Phys. Sol. State 2001, 43, 185-189

  • B. Barbara, I. Chiorescu, W. Wernsdorfer, H. Bögge, A. Müller
    "The V15 molecule, a multi-spin two-level system: adiabatic LZS transition with or without dissipation and Kramers theorem"
    Prog. Theor. Phys. Suppl. 2002, 145, 357-369

  • I. Chiorescu, W. Wernsdorfer, A. Müller, S. Miyashita, B. Barbara
    "Adiabatic Landau-Zener-Stückelberg transition with or without dissipation in the low-spin molecular system V15"
    Phys. Rev. B 2003, 67, 020402:1-4

  • H. Nojiri, T. Taniguchia, Y. Ajiro, A. Müller, B. Barbara
    "Quantum dynamics of molecular magnets in ultra-fast sweeping magnetic fields"
    Physica B 2004, 346-347, 216-220

  • D. Zipse N. S. Dalal, R. Vasic, J. S. Brooks, P. Kögerler
    "Dielectric and transport properties of K6[V15 As6O42(H2O)]·8H2O"
    Phys. Rev. B 2005, 71, 064417:1-8

  • Quantum Informatiion Processing and Decoherence

  • V. V. Dobrovitski, M. I. Katsnelson, B. N. Harmon
    "Mechanisms of decoherence in weakly anisotropic molecular magnets"
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 2000, 84, 3458-3461

  • P. C. E. Stamp, I. S. Tupitsyn
    "Coherence window in the dynamics of quantum nanomagnets"
    Phys. Rev. B. 2004, 69, 014401:1-5

  • S. Bertaina, S. Gambarelli, T. Mitra, B. Tsukerblat, A. Müller, B. Barbara
    "Quantum oscillations in a molecular magnet"
    Nature 2008, 453, 203-206

  • P. C. E. Stamp
    "Quantum Information: Stopping the rot"
    Nature 2008, 453, 167-168

  • Energy Levels - Spin Hamiltonian Approach

  • C. Raghu, I. Rudra, D. Sen, S. Ramasesha
    "Properties of low-lying states in some high-nuclearity Mn, Fe and V clusters: exact studies of Heisenberg models"
    Phys. Rev. B 2001, 64, 064419:1-9

  • N. P. Konstantinidis, D. Coffey
    "Magnetic anisotropy in the molecular complex V15"
    Phys. Rev. B 2002, 66, 174426:1-9

  • H. De Raedt, S. Miyashita, K. Michielsen
    "Magnetic energy-level diagrams of high-spin (Mn12-acetate) and low-spin (V15) molecules"
    arXiv:cond-mat/0306275 v1, 2003

  • H. De Raedt, S. Miyashita, K. Michielsen, M. Machida
    "Microscopic origin of the adiabatic change of magnetization in molecular magnets"
    arXiv:cond-mat/0312581 v1 2003

  • S. Miyashita, H. De Raedt, K. Michielsen
    "Directionally independent energy gap formation due to the hyperfine interaction"
    Prog. Theor. Phys. 2003, 110, 889-899

  • H. De Raedt, S. Miyashita, K. Michielsen
    "Energy-level diagrams of high-spin and low-spin molecules"
    Phys. Stat. Sol. (b) 2004, 241, 1180-1185

  • H. De Raedt, S. Miyashita, K. Michielsen, M. Machida
    "Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions and adiabatic magnetization dynamics in molecular magnets"
    Phys. Rev. B 2004, 70, 064401:1-12

  • M. Machida, S. Miyashita
    "Spectral statistics and the Dzyaloshinsky-Moriya interaction of nanomagnet V15"
    Physica E 2005, 29, 538-540

  • B. Tsukerblat, A. Tarantul, A. Müller
    "Crossover of the magnetic levels and adiabatic magnetization of the mesoscopic cluster V15"
    Phys. Lett. A 2006, 353, 48-59

  • Energy Levels - Ab Initio, Electronic Structure

  • J. Kortus, C. S. Hellberg, M. R. Pederson
    "Hamiltonian of the V15 spin system from first-principles density-functional calculations"
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 2001, 86, 3400-3403

  • J. Kortus, M. R. Pederson, C. S. Hellberg, S. N. Khanna
    "DFT studies of the molecular nanomagnet Fe8 and the V15 spin system. Electronic structure and magnetic ordering"
    Euro. Phys. J. D 2001, 16, 177-180

  • D. W. Boukhvalov, V. V. Dobrovitski, M. I. Katsnelson, A. I. Lichtenstein, B. N. Harmon, P. Kögerler
    "Electrionic structure and exchange interactions in V15 magnetic molecules: LDA + U results"
    Phys. Rev. B 2004, 70, 054417:1-7

  • Inelastic Neutron Scattering

  • G. Chaboussant, R. Basler, A. Sieber, S. T. Ochsenbein, A. Desmedt, R. E. Lechner, M. T. F. Telling, P. Kögerler, A. Müller, H.-U. Güdel
    "Low-energy spin excitations in the molecular magnetic cluster V15"
    Europhys. Lett. 2002, 59, 291-297

  • G. Chaboussant, R. Basler, A. Sieber, S. T. Ochsenbein, H.-U. Güdel
    "Neutron scattering studies of magnetic molecular spin clusters"
    Physica B 2004, 350, e51-e54

  • G. Chaboussant, S. T. Ochsenbein, A. Sieber, H.-U. Güdel, B. Barbara, A. Müller, H. Mutka
    "Probing mixing of quantum spin states in frustrated molecular magnets with neutron scattering"
    Phys. Stat. Sol. (c) 2004, 1, 3399-3401

  • G. Chaboussant, S. T. Ochsenbein, A. Sieber, H.-U. Güdel, H. Mutka, A. Müller, B. Barbara
    "Mechanism of ground-state selection in the frustrated molecular spin cluster V15"
    Europhys. Lett. 2004, 66, 423-429

  • Static Magnetization and Magnetic Susceptibility

  • A-L. Barra, D. Gatteschi, L. Pardi, A. Müller, J. Döring
    "Magnetic properties of high-nuclearity spin clusters. Fourteen- and fifteen-oxovanadium(IV) clusters"
    J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1992, 114, 8509-8514

  • V. V. Platonov, O. M. Tatsenko, V. I. Plis, A. I. Popov, A. K. Zvezdin, B. Barbara
    "Magnetic susceptibility of the V15 nanocluster in Megagauss magnetic fields"
    Phys. Sol. State 2002, 44, 2104-2106

  • A. Tarantul, B. Tsukerblat, A. Müller
    "High-field magnetization of V15 at ultra-low temperatures: estimation of the antisymmetric exchange"
    Chem. Phys. Lett. 2006, 428, 361-366

  • A. Tarantul, B. Tsukerblat, A. Müller
    "Static magnetization of V15 cluster at ultra-low temperatures: precise estimation of antisymmetric exchange"
    Inorg. Chem. 2007, 46, 161-169

  • B. Tsukerblat, A. Tarantul, A. Müller
    "Nanoscopic molecular cluster V15: high-field EPR and magnetization at ultra-low temperatures"
    Chem. J. Moldova 2007, 2(1), 17-35

  • V. V. Maslyuk, I. Mertig, O. V. Farberovich, A. Tarantul, B. Tsukerblat
    "Electronic and spin structures of polyoxometalate V15 from a first-principles non-collinear molecular-magnetism approach"
    Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2013, 1897-1902

  • Jahn-Teller Effect

  • I. Rudra, S. Ramasesha, D. Sen
    "An alternate model for magnetization plateaus in the molecular magnet V15"
    J. Phys.: Condens. Mat. 2001, 13, 11717-11725

  • K. Saito, S. Miyashita
    "Magnetic Foehn effect in adiabatic transition"
    J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 2001, 70, 3385-3390

  • J. Choi, L. A. W. Sanderson, J. L. Musfeldt, A. Ellern, P. Kögerler
    "Optical properties of the molecule-based magnet K6[V15As6O42(H2O)]x8H2O"
    Phys. Rev. B 2003, 68, 064412:1-5

  • A. I. Popov, V. I. Plis, A. F. Popkov, A. K. Zvezdin
    "Jahn-Teller effect in multi-spin systems with high exchange interaction: ground state problem for V15 nanocluster"
    Phys. Rev. B 2004, 69, 104418:1-9

  • W. Wernsdorfer, A. Müller, D. Mailly, B. Barbara
    "Resonant photon absorption in the low spin molecule V15"
    Europhys. Lett. 2004, 66, 861-867

  • A. F. Popkov, N. E. Kulagin, A. I. Mukhanova, A. I. Popov, A. K. Zvezdin
    "Vibronic interactions and radiation absorption in the molecular nanocluster V15"
    Phys. Rev. B 2005, 72, 104410:1-9

  • B. Tsukerblat, A. Tarantul, A. Müller
    "Antisymmetric exchange and pseudo Jahn-Teller instability in spin-frustrated metal clusters"
    J. Mol. Struct. 2007, 838, 124-132

  • A. Tarantul, B. Tsukerblat, A. Müller
    "Static and dynamic deformation versus antisymmetric exchange in the frustrated trinuclear cluster"
    Sol. St. Sci.. 2008, 10, 1814-1819

  • A. Tarantul, B. Tsukerblat, A. Müller
    "Field induced crossover in antiferromagnetic spin frustrated clusters: influence of static and dynamic deformations"
    J. Mol. Struct. 2008, 890, 170-177

  • Muon Spin Lattice Relaxation

  • Z. Salman, R. F. Kiefl, K. H. Chow, W. A. MacFarlane, T. A. Keeler, T. J. Parolin, S. Tabbara, D. Wang
    "Persistent spin dynamics in the S = 1/2 V15 molecular nanomagnet"
    Phys. Rev. B 2008, 77, 214415:1-5



  • ESR Spectroscopy

  • S. Vongtragool, B. Gorshunov, A. A. Mukhin, J. van Slageren, M. Dressel, A. Müller
    "High-frequency magnetic spectroscopy on the molecular magnetic cluster V15"
    Phys.Chem.Chem.Phys. 2003, 5, 2778-2782

  • T. Sakon, K. Koyama, M. Motokawa, Y. Ajiro, A. Müller, B. Barbara
    "ESR experiments of molecular magnet V15 at ultra-low temperatures"
    Physica B 2004, 346-347, 206-210

  • M. Machida, T. Iitaka, S. Miyashita
    "Temperature dependence of ESR intensity for the nanoscale molecular magnet V15"
    arXiv:cond-mat/0501439v2 2005

  • T. Sakon, K. Koyama, M. Motokawa, A. Müller, B. Barbara, Y. Ajiro
    "Detail ESR measurements for the quantum molecular magnet V15 at ultra-low temperatures"
    Prog. Theor. Phys. Suppl. 2005, 159, 302-307

  • D. Gatteschi, A.-L. Barra, A. Caneschi, A. Cornia, R. Sessoli, L. Sorace
    "EPR of Molecular Nanomagnets"
    Coord. Chem. Rev. 2006, 250, 1514-1529

  • K. Kajiyoshi, T. Kambe, M. Mino, H. Nojiri, P. Kögerler, M. Luban
    "Direct Estimation of Zero-Field Energy Gap in the Nano-Scale Single Molecular Magnet V15"
    J. Mag. Mag. Mat. 2007, 310, 1203-1205

  • B. Tsukerblat, A. Tarantul, A. Müller
    "Low temperature EPR spectra of the mesoscopic cluster V15: the role of antisymmetric exchange"
    J. Chem. Phys. 2006, 125, 0547141-0547149

  • NMR Spectroscopy

  • D. Procissi, B. J. Suh, J. K. Jung, P. Kögerler, R. Vincent, F. Borsa
    "Unconventional Heisenberg Spin Triangle in Magnetic Molecule {V15}: A Proton Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Study"
    J. Appl. Phys. 2003, 93, 7810-7812

  • Y. Furukawa, Y. Fujiyoshi, K. Kumagai, P. Kögerler
    "Spin dynamics and level crossing in nanoscale molecular magnet V15 cluster studied by 1H-NMR"
    Polyhedron 2005, 24, 2737-2744


  • K. Kumagai, Y. Fujiyoshi, Y. Furukawa, P. Kögerler
    "1H-NMR Studies on Spin Dynamics in Molecular Nanomagnet V15"
    J Mag. Mag. Mat. 2005, 294, 141-146
  • Y. Furukawa, Y. Nishisaka, K. Kumagai, P. Kögerler
    "Spin Structure of the Nanoscale Molecular Magnet V15 Cluster Revcealed by 51V-NMR "
    J. Mag. Mag. Mat. 2007, 310, 1429-1431

  • Y. Furukawa, Y. Nishisaka, K. Kumagai, P. Kögerler, F. Borsa
    "Magnetic Properties of Heisenberg Triangular Antiferromagnet V15 Cluster Studied by NMR "
    Hyperfine Interactions 2007, 176, 65-68

  • Y. Furukawa, Y. Nishisaka, K. Kumagai, P. Kögerler, F. Borsa
    "Local Spin Moment Configuration in the Frustrated S = 1/2 Heisenberg Triangular Antiferromagnet V15 Determined by NMR "
    Phys. Rev. B 2007, 75, 220402:1-4

  • Quantum Tunneling

  • S. Miyashita, N. Nagaosa
    "Quantum Tunneling in Half-Integer Spin Systems"
    Prog. Theor. Phys. 2001, 106, 533-549

  • D. Procissi, A. Lascialfari, E. Micotti, M. Bertassi, P. Carretta, Y. Furukawa, P. Kögerler
    "Low-energy excitations in the S = 1/2 molecular nanomagnet K6[VIV15As6O42(H2O)] x 8H2O from proton NMR and µSR"
    Phys. Rev. B 2006, 73, 184417:1-5