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A位反铁磁尖晶石的有序相理论

Theory of the Ordered Phase in A-site Antiferromagnetic Spinels

SungBin Lee, Leon Balents

摘要:

具有化学式$AB_2X_4$的绝缘尖晶石材料在仅A位原子具有磁性时表现为金刚石晶格反铁磁体。许多人表现出典型的挫折签名,不是几何诱导,而是由竞争的第一和第二邻居交换相互作用。在本文中,我们进一步发展了这些材料的磁性理论,专注于有序状态内可观察到的物理。我们推导出一个唯象的朗道理论,该理论预测了无公度螺旋有序态中自旋的取向。它还描述了自旋如何在磁场中重新定向,以及它们如何经历低温“锁定”转变到相称状态。我们讨论这些磁各向异性效应的微观机制。量子涨落的有序矩的减少被证明是增强由于挫折。我们的研究结果进行了比较MnSc_2S_4,最好的特点,这样的A位尖晶石的实验,更一般的影响进行了讨论。一个预测是,磁感应铁电性是通用的,在这些材料中,和电极化的强度的磁性的关系的详细描述。

英文摘要:

Insulating spinel materials, with the chemical formula $AB_2X_4$, behave as diamond lattice antiferromagnets when only the A-site atom is magnetic. Many exhibit classic signatures of frustration, induced not geometrically but by competing first and second neighbor exchange interactions. In this paper, we further develop a theory of the magnetism of these materials, focusing on the physics observable within the ordered state. We derive a phenomenological Landau theory that predicts the orientation of the spins within incommensurate spiral ordered states. It also describes how the spins reorient in a magnetic field, and how they may undergo a low temperature "lock-in" transition to a commensurate state. We discuss microscopic mechanisms for these magnetic anisotropy effects. The reduction of the ordered moment by quantum fluctuations is shown to be enhanced due to frustration. Our results are compared to experiments on MnSc_2S_4, the best characterized of such A-site spinels, and more general implications are discussed. One prediction is that magnetically-induced ferroelectricity is generic in these materials, and a detailed description of the relation of the electric polarization to the magnetism is given.

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