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Paramagnetic single-molecule magnets (SMMs) interacting with the ferromagnetic electrodes of a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) produce a new system. The properties and future scope of new systems differ dramatically from the properties of isolated molecules and ferromagnets. However, it is unknown how far deep in the ferromagnetic electrode the impact of the paramagnetic molecule and ferromagnet interactions can travel for various levels of molecular spin states. Our prior experimental studies showed two types of paramagnetic SMMs, the hexanuclear Mn 6 and octanuclear Fe–Ni molecular complexes, covalently bonded to ferromagnets produced unprecedented strong antiferromagnetic coupling between two ferromagnets at room temperature leading to a number of intriguing observations (P. Tyagi, et al. , Org. Electron. , 2019, 64 , 188–194. P. Tyagi, et al. , RSC Adv. , 2020, 10 , (22), 13006–13015). This paper reports a Monte Carlo Simulations (MCS) study focusing on the impact of the molecular spin state on a cross junction shaped MTJ based molecular spintronics device (MTJMSD). Our MCS study focused on the Heisenberg model of MTJMSD and investigated the impact of various molecular coupling strengths, thermal energy, and molecular spin states. To gauge the impact of the molecular spin state on the region of ferromagnetic electrodes, we examined the spatial distribution of molecule-ferromagnet correlated phases. Our MCS study shows that under a strong coupling regime, the molecular spin state should be ∼30% of the ferromagnetic electrode's atomic spins to create long-range correlated phases. 

The hysteresis loop investigations of different size magnetic tunnel junction molecular spintronics devices (MTJMSD) have been done by Monte Carlo simulation (MCS). We employed a continuous MCS algorithm to investigate single-molecule magnet SMM’s spin state’s impact as a function of molecular exchange coupling strength. The applied magnetic fields were ramped at a variety of ranges of increments, unfolding physics behind the magnetization nature of each MTJMSD. The magnetic moment changes with applied magnetic fields exhibit the characteristics of devices being studied. The MTJMSDs were studied for ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic exchange couplings. The magnetic moment saturation, retentivity, coercivity, and permeability are studied.