Mössbauer Observation of the Quantum Levels of Fe3+ Ions Doped in 1D Ising Ferromagnet Ca3Co2O6

Abstract
We have measured the Mössbauer effect of 57Fe3+(S=5/2) ions doped in a 1D Ising ferromagnet Ca3Co2 O6. The spectra with hyperfine fields corresponding to the exchange polarized Fe electron spins with mz=±5/2,±3/2,±1/2 are first observed in the magnetically dense system for T20K, suggesting slow magnetic relaxation at the Fe3+ sites. The key lies in the large difference between magnetic characters of the host (Ising) and impurity (Heisenberg) spins, making the impurity spins extremely isolated in the host 1D Ising spin system.