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Journal of Structural Chemistry

2016 year, number 8

RELAXATION KINETICS OF PHOTOEXCITED STATES IN A CHAIN OF EXCHANGE CLUSTERS IN THE MEAN-FIELD APPROXIMATION

V. A. Morozov1,2
1International Tomography Center, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia
2Novosibirsk National Research State University, Novosibirsk, Russia
Keywords: обменный кластер, спин-кроссовер, светоиндуцированные ян-теллеровские переходы, кинетика структурной релаксации, exchange cluster, spin crossover, light-induced Jahn-Teller transitions, structural relaxation kinetics

Abstract

A theoretical description of the relaxation kinetics of photoexcited states in chains of exchange clusters is developed in the mean-field approximation. It is found that in contrast to the analog of this phenomenon in the light-induced electron spin-state trapping (LIESST) effect well known for the conventional spin crossover compounds of Fe(II), the relaxation kinetics in chains of exchange clusters can be self-decelerating due to the different relaxation rates of two types of photoexcited states in the chain. The proposed theoretical approach qualitatively explains the experimentally observed difference in relaxation kinetics at different initial excitation intensities of the system during photoexcitation of breathing crystal compounds.