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通过热膨胀测量alpha-RuCl3单晶中的单轴和hydrostatic pressure效应

Uniaxial and hydrostatic pressure effects in alpha-RuCl3 single crystals via thermal-expansion measurements

Mingquan He, Xiao Wang, Liran Wang, Frédéric Hardy, Thomas Wolf, Peter Adelmann, Thomas Brückel, Yixi Su, Christoph Meingast

摘要:

我们提出了高分辨率的热膨胀和比热测量单晶α-RuCl 3。通过沿两个晶轴的热膨胀观察到扩展超过100 K的极其滞后的结构转变,我们将其归因于RuCl 3层的堆叠顺序的改变。三个磁过渡观察到,我们链接到不同的堆叠序列。使用我们的数据和热力学关系,我们推导出所有三个磁过渡的单轴和静水压力导数。我们的结果表明,磁序应完全抑制非常温和的压力为0.3 GPa至0.9 GPa。最后,我们讨论了为什么我们的结果不同于最近的静水压力测量,并提出了一个可能的路线,达到自旋液体状态的α-RuCl 3。

英文摘要:

We present high-resolution thermal-expansion and specific-heat measurements of single crystalline alpha-RuCl3. An extremely hysteretic structural transition expanding over 100 K is observed by thermal- expansion along both crystallographic axes, which we attribute to a change of stacking sequence of the RuCl3 layers. Three magnetic transitions are observed, which we link to the different stacking sequences. Using our data and thermodynamic relations, we derive the uniaxial and hydrostatic pressure derivatives of all three magnetic transitions. Our results demonstrate that magnetic order should be totally suppressed by very moderate pressures of 0.3 GPa to 0.9 GPa. Finally, we discuss why our results differ from recent hydrostatic pressure measurements and suggest a possible route to reaching the spin-liquid state in alpha-RuCl3.

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