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arXiv 1503.06102cond-mat.str-el
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钙钛矿型稀土镍酸盐RNiO $_3$的磁激发

Magnetic excitations of perovskite rare-earth nickelates: RNiO$_3$

Ivon R. Buitrago, Cecilia I. Ventura

摘要:

钙钛矿镍酸盐RNiO $_3$(R:稀土)已被研究为潜在的多铁性化合物。镍离子中一定程度的电荷分离已被高分辨率同步加速器粉末衍射证实:它们可以具有混合价态Ni $^{(3-δ)+}$和Ni $^{(3+δ)+}$,而不是名义上的Ni $^{3+}$价态,尽管尚未就$δ$的精确值达成一致(例如,对于NdNiO $_3$,$δ=0.0$和$δ=0.29$已被报道)。此外,磁性基态还不清楚:共线和非共线的Ni-O磁性结构已被提出来解释这些化合物中的中子衍射和软X射线共振散射结果,最近提出了一个倾斜的反铁磁自旋排列的磁化率测量的基础上。这种情况让人想起半掺杂锰氧化物中的情况。为了深入了解这些化合物的基态,我们研究了提出的一些不同相的磁激发,使用一个简化的自旋链,可以描述这些化合物的局域自旋模型。我们首先分析了经典情形下共线相、正交相和中间相的稳定性。然后,我们间接地探索量子基态,计算每个阶段获得的自旋激发,使用Holstein-Primakoff变换和线性自旋波近似。对于共线和正交($θ=π/2$)相,我们预测的磁振子谱的差异,这将允许区分它们在未来的非弹性中子散射实验。

英文摘要:

The perovskite nickelates RNiO$_3$ (R: rare-earth) have been studied as potential multiferroic compounds. A certain degree of charge disproportionation in the Ni ions has been confirmed by high resolution synchrotron power diffraction: instead of the nominal Ni$^{3+}$ valence, they can have the mixed-valence state Ni$^{(3-δ)+}$ and Ni$^{(3+δ)+}$, though agreement has not been reached on the precise value of $δ$ (e.g. for NdNiO$_3$, $δ=0.0$ and $δ=0.29$ were reported). Also, the magnetic ground state is not yet clear: collinear and non-collinear Ni-O magnetic structures have been proposed to explain neutron diffraction and soft X-ray resonant sccattering results in these compounds, and more recently a canted antiferromagnetic spin arrangement was proposed on the basis of magnetic susceptibility measurements. This scenario is reminiscent of the situation in the half-doped manganites. In order to gain insight into the ground state of these compounds, we studied the magnetic excitations of some of the different phases proposed, using a localized spin model for a simplified spin chain which could describe these compounds. We first analize the stability of the collinear, orthogonal, and intermediate phases in the classical case. We then explore the quantum ground state indirectly, calculating the spin excitations obtained for each phase, using the Holstein-Primakoff transformation and the linear spin-wave approximation. For the collinear and orthogonal ($θ=π/2$) phases, we predict differences in the magnon spectrum which would allow to distinguish between them in future inelastic neutron scattering experiments.

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