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Yb delafossites:完美三角晶格上4f自旋1/2矩的独特交换阻挫

Yb delafossites: unique exchange frustration of 4f spin 1/2 moments on a perfect triangular lattice

B. Schmidt, J. Sichelschmidt, K. M. Ranjith, Th. Doert, M. Baenitz

摘要:

虽然在过渡金属离子的情况下,平面晶格结构上磁性莫特绝缘体的海森堡模型相对较好地理解,但这种晶格上的4f磁性离子的固有自旋轨道纠缠显示出迷人的新物理,这主要是由于它们的单离子和交换性质中相应的强各向异性。我们在这里表明,Yb delafosites,包含完美的磁性Yb $^{3+}$三角晶格平面与赝自旋$s=1/2$在低温下,是一个理想的平台,研究这些新的现象。竞争性阻挫相互作用可能导致与具有超过许多重费米子的巨大线性比热的无带隙自旋液体基态相关联的磁序的缺失,而磁场的应用诱导各向异性磁序,并连续转变成不同的长程有序结构。在这项比较研究中,我们讨论了我们的实验结果在一个统一的晶体场和交换模型。我们结合电子顺磁共振(EPR)实验和中子散射的磁化率,等温磁化到全极化,和比热测量结果,以确定相关的模型参数。讨论了晶体场的影响以及交换张量的相容形式,并给出了各向异性g因子、磁化率的温度依赖性、交换窄化EPR线宽和饱和场的显式表达式。

英文摘要:

While the Heisenberg model for magnetic Mott insulators on planar lattice structures is comparatively well understood in the case of transition metal ions, the intrinsic spin-orbit entanglement of 4f magnetic ions on such lattices shows fascinating new physics largely due to corresponding strong anisotropies both in their single-ion and their exchange properties. We show here that the Yb delafossites, containing perfect magnetic Yb$^{3+}$ triangular lattice planes with pseudospin $s=1/2$ at low temperatures, are an ideal platform to study these new phenomena. Competing frustrated interactions may lead to an absence of magnetic order associated to a gapless spin liquid ground state with a huge linear specific heat exceeding that of many heavy fermions, whereas the application of a magnetic field induces anisotropic magnetic order with successive transitions into different long ranged ordered structures. In this comparative study, we discuss our experimental findings in terms of a unified crystal-field and exchange model. We combine electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) experiments and results from neutron scattering with measurements of the magnetic susceptibility, isothermal magnetization up to full polarization, and specific heat to determine the relevant model parameters. The impact of the crystal field is discussed as well as the symmetry-compatible form of the exchange tensor, and we give explicit expressions for the anisotropic g factor, the temperature dependence of the susceptibility, the exchange-narrowed EPR linewidth and the saturation field.

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