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Abstract:
The magnetic torque of the antiferromagnetic molecular wheel CsFe8 was
studied down to 50 mK and up to 28 T. Below about 0.5 K phase
transitions were observed at the field-induced level crossings (LCs).
Intermolecular magnetic interactions are very weak excluding
field-induced magnetic ordering. A magnetoelastic coupling was
considered. A generic model shows that the wheel structure is
unconditionally unstable at the LCs, and the predicted torque curves
explain the essential features of the data well.