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arXiv 2010.04544cond-mat.mes-hallcond-mat.mtrl-scicond-mat.str-el
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范德华磁体CrI3中热无序驱动的磁相位

Thermal disorder driven magnetic phases in van der Waals magnet CrI3

Jaume Meseguer-Sanchez, Dina Abdul Wahab, Hubertus Luetkens, Grigol Taniashvili, Efren Navarro-Moratalla, Zurab Guguchia, Elton J. G. Santos

摘要:

磁相变通常在特定的临界温度自发发生。已经在几种化合物中观察到多于一个的临界温度(Tc)的存在,其中竞争磁序的共存突出了由诸如压力、温度和化学组成的不同因素驱动的相分离的重要性。然而,目前尚不清楚最近发现的二维(2D)范德华(vdW)磁性材料是否显示出这种有趣的现象,可以导致丰富的相图与新的磁性特征进行探索。在这里,我们显示了三个磁相变在不同的Tc的二维VDW磁铁CrI3揭示了一套互补的μ子自旋弛豫旋转,超导量子干涉装置的磁强计,和大规模的原子模拟,包括高阶交换相互作用。我们发现,传统上确定的居里温度散装碘化铬在61 K并不对应于长程序在全体积(VM)的晶体,而是一个部分的过渡与小于25%的VM磁自旋有序。该过渡由高度无序的畴组成,磁化强度Sz的易轴分量不是完全自旋极化的,而是在整个层上由面内分量(Sx,Sy)无序的。随着系统冷却下来,在50 K和25 K的两个额外的相变驱动系统的80%和近100%的磁有序体积,分别,其中的铁磁基态具有显着的Sz字符还显示有限的贡献Sx和Sy的总磁化。我们的研究结果表明,体积明智的竞争电子相发挥重要作用的CrI3的磁性设置一个低得多的阈值温度开发的磁性器件平台比最初考虑的。

英文摘要:

Magnetic phase transitions often occur spontaneously at specific critical temperatures. The presence of more than one critical temperature (Tc) has been observed in several compounds where the coexistence of competing magnetic orders highlights the importance of phase separation driven by different factors such as pressure, temperature and chemical composition. However, it is unknown whether recently discovered two-dimensional (2D) van der Walls (vdW) magnetic materials show such intriguing phenomena that can result in rich phase diagrams with novel magnetic features to be explored. Here we show the existence of three magnetic phase transitions at different Tc's in 2D vdW magnet CrI3 revealed by a complementary suite of muon spin relaxation-rotation, superconducting quantum interference device magnetometry, and large-scale atomistic simulations including higher-order exchange interactions. We find that the traditionally identified Curie temperature of bulk CrI3 at 61 K does not correspond to the long-range order in the full volume (VM) of the crystal but rather a partial transition with less than 25% of VM being magnetically spin-ordered. This transition is composed of highly disordered domains with the easy-axis component of the magnetization Sz not being fully spin-polarized but disordered by in-plane components (Sx, Sy) over the entire layer. As the system cools down, two additional phase transitions at 50 K and 25 K drive the system to 80% and nearly 100% of the magnetically ordered volume, respectively, where the ferromagnetic ground state has a marked Sz character yet also displaying finite contributions of Sx and Sy to the total magnetization. Our results indicate that volume-wise competing electronic phases play an important role in the magnetic properties of CrI3 which set a much lower threshold temperature for exploitation in magnetic device-platforms than initially considered.

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