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尖晶石HgCr2O4中分数磁化态的自旋-晶格不稳定性

Spin-lattice instability to a fractional magnetization state in the spinel HgCr2O4

M. Matsuda, H. Ueda, A. Kikkawa, Y. Tanaka, K. Katsumata, Y. Narumi, T. Inami, Y. Ueda, S. -H. Lee

摘要:

当磁相互作用由于晶格的拓扑结构而不能同时满足时,磁系统是奇异态出现的肥沃土壤-这种情况称为几何挫折。尖晶石AB 2 O 4可以实现角共享四面体的最高挫败网络。在尖晶石中发现了一些新的态,如复合自旋团簇和新的电荷有序态。本文利用中子和同步辐射X射线散射研究了HgCr_2 O_4在外加磁场H.当电场作用在Neel基态时,在H ~ 10 T处发生相变,四面体从倾斜的Neel态转变为自旋为S/2的分数自旋态,晶格从正交对称性转变为立方对称性.我们的结果提供了自旋态和晶格畸变之间的微观一一对应。

英文摘要:

Magnetic systems are fertile ground for the emergence of exotic states when the magnetic interactions cannot be satisfied simultaneously due to the topology of the lattice - a situation known as geometrical frustration. Spinels, AB2O4, can realize the most highly frustrated network of corner-sharing tetrahedra. Several novel states have been discovered in spinels, such as composite spin clusters and novel charge-ordered states. Here we use neutron and synchrotron X-ray scattering to characterize the fractional magnetization state of HgCr2O4 under an external magnetic field, H. When the field is applied in its Neel ground state, a phase transition occurs at H ~ 10 Tesla at which each tetrahedron changes from a canted Neel state to a fractional spin state with the total spin, Stet, of S/2 and the lattice undergoes orthorhombic to cubic symmetry change. Our results provide the microscopic one-to-one correspondence between the spin state and the lattice distortion.

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