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6 H钙钛矿铱酸盐的跳跃诱导基态磁性

Hopping induced ground-state magnetism in 6H perovskite iridates

A. Nag, S. Bhowal, M. Moretti Sala, A. Efimenko, I. Dasgupta, S. Ray

摘要:

对元激发的研究促进了我们对控制物质大多数物理性质的多体物理学的理解。最近,自旋轨道激子引起了人们的广泛关注,其相变附近的凝聚体表现出希格斯模式振荡,这是一种长期寻求的物理现象[Nat. Phys. { \bf 13},633(2017)]。这些临界转变点由竞争的自旋轨道耦合(SOC)、局部晶体对称性和交换相互作用引起,在基于铱的材料中并不明显,其中SOC通常占优势。在这里,我们提出的结果共振非弹性x射线散射自旋轨道液体Ba $_3$ ZnIr $_2$ O $_9$和其他三个6 H-六方钙钛矿铱酸盐显示磁性,相反的非磁性单重基态预期由于强SOC。我们的结果表明,大量的跳跃之间的紧密放置的Ir $^{5+}$离子内的Ir $_2$ O $_9$二聚体在这些6 H-铱酸盐,改变自旋-轨道耦合态并降低自旋-轨道激发能。在这里,我们被迫使用至少一个两个网站的模型,以匹配激发光谱去符合强内二聚体跳跃。除了SOC,低能量物理的铱酸盐因此严重依赖于跳跃,并且可能不会被忽略,即使是具有适度跳跃的系统,其中激发光谱可以使用原子模型来解释。在铱酸盐中通常发现的SOC为0.4-0.5~eV,对于6 H-体系,SOC实际上按比例缩小到$\sim$ 0.26~eV,维持了通过调节Ir-Ir分离来实现量子临界的希望。

英文摘要:

Investigation of elementary excitations has advanced our understanding of many-body physics governing most physical properties of matter. Recently spin-orbit excitons have drawn much attention, whose condensates near phase transitions exhibit Higgs mode oscillations, a long-sought physical phenomenon [Nat. Phys. {\bf 13}, 633 (2017)]. These critical transition points resulting from competing spin-orbit coupling (SOC), local crystalline symmetry and exchange interactions, are not obvious in Iridium based materials, where SOC prevails in general. Here, we present results of resonant inelastic x-ray scattering on a spin-orbital liquid Ba$_3$ZnIr$_2$O$_9$ and three other 6H-hexagonal perovskite iridates which show magnetism, contrary to non-magnetic singlet ground state expected due to strong SOC. Our results show that substantial hopping between closely placed Ir$^{5+}$ ions within Ir$_2$O$_9$ dimers in these 6H-iridates, modifies spin-orbit coupled states and reduces spin-orbit excitation energies. Here, we are forced to use at least a two-site model, to match the excitation spectrum going in line with the strong intra-dimer hopping. Apart from SOC, low energy physics of iridates is thus critically dependent on hopping, and may not be ignored even for systems having moderate hopping, where the excitation spectra can be explained using an atomic model. SOC which is generally found to be 0.4-0.5~eV in iridates, is scaled in effect down to $\sim$0.26~eV for the 6H-systems, sustaining the hope to achieve quantum criticality by tuning Ir-Ir separation.

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