posted on 2020-07-06, 18:14authored byYoshiaki Uchida, Go Watanabe, Takuya Akita, Norikazu Nishiyama
Against a sensible expectation that molecular mobility in fluids
generally disrupts magnetic orderings that depend on intermolecular
interactions, some molecular compounds with isolated electrons, which
are called radicals, exhibit the increase of magnetic susceptibility
in melting. Here we first propose a simple model to explain the thermomagnetic
anomaly unique to fluids; the effect of the magnetic interactions
in each of the contacts could be accumulated on each of the molecular
spins as if the molecular motion amplified the first coordination
number of each molecule hundredfold. The huge coordination number
theoretically guarantees the retention of memory of interactions at
equilibrium; molecules might be able to conserve the memory of molecular
conformations, configurations, electric charges, energies as well
as magnetic memory with each other.