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arXiv 2005.09636cond-mat.str-el
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反铁磁GdCu2Si2、CuO、LiCrO2和alpha-CaCr2O4单晶在低于其Neel温度时的磁化率符合分子场理论

Molecular-field-theory fits to magnetic susceptibilities of antiferromagnetic GdCu2Si2, CuO, LiCrO2, and alpha-CaCr2O4 single crystals below their Neel temperatures

David C. Johnston

摘要:

最近发展的分子场论(MFT)已被用来拟合单晶磁化率chi与温度T数据低于各自的反铁磁有序温度TN的各种共线和共面非共线海森堡反铁磁体。假设系统中的自旋通过海森堡交换相互作用,并且是相同的和晶体学等效的。共线反铁磁体的chi(T)的拟合参数是可测量的量:居里-外斯定律中的外斯温度theta_p,TN,chi(TN)和自旋S。对于共面非共线螺旋线和摆线结构,额外的拟合参数是铁磁对准自旋层之间的转角。在这里,MFT适合各向异性chi(T)数据从文献中的共线反铁磁体GdCu2Si2和CuO和非共线反铁磁体LiCr2As2与120度摆线结构和α-CaCr2O4与120度螺旋结构低于各自的尼尔温度。MFT对CuO的各向异性chi(T <TN)数据的拟合较差,而对GdCu2Si2、LiCrO2和α-CaCr2O4的数据的拟合相当好。CuO的拟合差归因于与小Cu自旋和准一维磁性相关的强量子涨落的影响,这些都没有被MFT考虑在内。在T <TN时,磁场对共线反铁磁体GdNiGe_3零场热容的贡献也由MFT拟合。

英文摘要:

A recently-developed molecular field theory (MFT) has been used to fit single-crystal magnetic susceptibility chi versus temperature T data below the respective antiferromagnetic ordering temperatures TN for a variety of collinear and coplanar noncollinear Heisenberg antiferromagnets. The spins in the system are assumed to interact by Heisenberg exchange and to be identical and crystallographically equivalent. The fitting parameters for chi(T) of collinear antiferromagnets are measurable quantities: the Weiss temperature theta_p in the Curie-Weiss law, TN, chi(TN), and the spin S. For coplanar noncollinear helix and cycloid structures, an additional fitting parameter is the turn angle between layers of ferromagnetically-aligned spins. Here MFT fits to anisotropic chi(T) data from the literature for single crystals of the collinear antiferromagnets GdCu2Si2 and CuO and the noncollinear antiferromagnets LiCr2As2 with a 120 degree cycloidal structure and alpha-CaCr2O4 with a 120 degree helical structure below their respective Neel temperatures are presented. The MFT fit to the anisotropic chi(T < TN) data for CuO is poor, whereas the fits to the data for GdCu2Si2, LiCrO2, and alpha-CaCr2O4 are quite good. The poor fit for CuO is attributed to the influence of strong quantum fluctuations associated with the small Cu spin and the quasi-one-dimensional magnetism that are not taken into account by the MFT. The magnetic contribution to the zero-field heat capacity of the collinear antiferromagnet GdNiGe3 at T < TN is also fitted by the MFT.

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