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关于多铁Skyrmion-host GaV4S8

On the multiferroic skyrmion-host GaV4S8

S. Widmann, E. Ruff, A. Günther, H. -A. Krug von Nidda, P. Lunkenheimer, V. Tsurkan, S. Bordács, I. Kézsmárki, A. Loidl

摘要:

GaV 4S 8在44 K时具有轨道有序性,在12.7 K以下具有复杂的磁性相图,其中包括铁磁性和摆线自旋有序。在低但有限的外部磁场下,这种材料中会形成Néel型skyrmions。Skyrmion是一种类自旋涡旋,由于其非平凡的自旋拓扑结构而引起了极大的理论兴趣,也被认为是新的数据存储技术的基本实体。有趣的是,我们发现,轨道有序相显示出相当大的铁电极化和多余的自旋驱动极化出现在所有的磁性相,包括skyrmion晶格相。因此,GaV 4S 8同时表现出磁性和极性有序,属于多铁性材料,近年来引起了极大的关注。在这里,我们总结了现有的实验信息的磁性,电子和介电性能的GaV 4S 8。通过进行详细的磁化率,电阻率,比热,和介电实验,我们补充了低温相图。具体来说,我们表明,低温和低场基态的GaV 4S 8似乎有一个更复杂的自旋配置比纯粹的共线铁磁自旋秩序。此外,在结构的Jahn-Teller转变的磁交换相互作用的变化从反铁磁的铁磁。我们还提供了实验证据,在GaV_4S_8中的钒V_4团簇可以被看作是自旋为1/2的分子单元。然而,在高温下,磁化率出现偏差,表明要么钒原子的磁矩独立波动,要么V4分子的激发态变得相关。

英文摘要:

The lacunar spinel GaV4S8 exhibits orbital ordering at 44 K and shows a complex magnetic phase diagram below 12.7 K, which includes ferromagnetic and cycloidal spin order. At low but finite external magnetic fields, Néel-type skyrmions are formed in this material. Skyrmions are whirl-like spin vortices that have received great theoretical interest because of their non-trivial spin topology and that are also considered as basic entities for new data-storage technologies. Interestingly, we found that the orbitally ordered phase shows sizable ferroelectric polarization and that excess spin-driven polarizations appear in all magnetic phases, including the skyrmion-lattice phase. Hence, GaV4S8 shows simultaneous magnetic and polar order and belongs to the class of multiferroics, materials that attracted enormous attention in recent years. Here, we summarize the existing experimental information on the magnetic, electronic, and dielectric properties of GaV4S8. By performing detailed magnetic susceptibility, resistivity, specific heat, and dielectric experiments, we complement the low-temperature phase diagram. Specifically, we show that the low-temperature and low-field ground state of GaV4S8 seems to have a more complex spin configuration than purely collinear ferromagnetic spin order. In addition, at the structural Jahn-Teller transition the magnetic exchange interaction changes from antiferromagnetic to ferromagnetic. We also provide experimental evidence that the vanadium V4 clusters in GaV4S8 can be regarded as molecular units with spin 1/2. However, at high temperatures deviations in the susceptibility show up, indicating that either the magnetic moments of the vanadium atoms fluctuate independently or excited states of the V4 molecule become relevant.

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