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烧绿石铱酸盐Nd2Ir2O7的磁序和电子基态

Magnetic order and the electronic ground state in the pyrochlore iridate Nd2Ir2O7

S. M. Disseler, Chetan Dhital, T. C. Hogan, A. Amato, S. R. Giblin, Clarina de la Cruz, A. Daoud-Aladine, Stephen D. Wilson, M. J. Graf

摘要:

我们报告了一个相结合的μ子自旋弛豫/旋转,体磁化,中子散射和运输的研究的烧绿石铱酸盐Nd 2 Ir 2 O 7的电子性质。我们观察到在低于120 K的温度依赖磁化强度的强滞后行为的开始,和温度依赖电阻率的突然增加低于8 K。零场μ子自旋弛豫测量表明,滞后磁化驱动的磁无序状态的过渡,并低于8 K的复杂的磁有序基态集,证明了严重阻尼自发μ子进动的发病。我们的测量点对一个真正的金属到绝缘体的相变在这种材料的情况下,并建议Nd 2 Ir 2 O 7位于狄拉克半金属制度的边界内或其拓扑相图的金属一侧。

英文摘要:

We report a combined muon spin relaxation/rotation, bulk magnetization, neutron scattering, and transport study of the electronic properties of the pyrochlore iridate Nd2Ir2O7. We observe the onset of strongly hysteretic behavior in the temperature dependent magnetization below 120 K, and an abrupt increase in the temperature dependent resistivity below 8 K. Zero field muon spin relaxation measurements show that the hysteretic magnetization is driven by a transition to a magnetically disordered state, and that below 8 K a complex magnetically ordered ground state sets in, as evidenced by the onset of heavily damped spontaneous muon precession. Our measurements point toward the absence of a true metal-to-insulator phase transition in this material and suggest that Nd2Ir2O7 lies either within or on the metallic side of the boundary of the Dirac semimetal regime within its topological phase diagram.

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