arXivDaily arXiv每日学术速递 周一至周五更新
北美退伍军人节(Veterans Day),12 日无更新
arXiv 2210.05641cond-mat.str-el
收藏

单晶Sm$_2$Ir$_2$O$_7$在压力诱导量子临界相边界附近的磁输运性质

Magnetotransport of single crystal Sm$_2$Ir$_2$O$_7$ across the pressure-induced quantum-critical phase boundary

M. J. Coak, K. Götze, T. Northam De La Fuente, C. Castelnovo, J. P. Tidey, J. Singleton, A. T. Boothroyd, D. Prabhakaran, P. A. Goddard

AI总结:

该研究测量了单晶Sm$_2$Ir$_2$O$_7$在压力诱导量子临界点附近的输运性质,发现AIAO有序抑制并不导致金属导电,而是出现非金属行为,并在临界点附近发现新型电子相,其低温输运符合外尔半金属模型。

摘要:

稀土烧绿石铱氧化物拥有由共角四面体构成的两个相互交错的磁性亚晶格,并能容纳受挫磁矩、奇异激发和强关联电子的独特组合。它们也是首批被预测同时展现拓扑外尔半金属和轴子绝缘体相的系统。我们测量了单晶Sm$_2$Ir$_2$O$_7$在压力达到并超过此前通过共振X射线散射确定的、全进全出(AIAO)Ir有序的量子临界点($p_{\ m c}$ = 63 kbar)时的输运和磁输运性质,而该临界点附近此前已被预测会出现外尔半金属行为。我们的发现推翻了公认的预期,即AIAO有序的抑制应导致金属导电持续到零温。相反,电阻率最低温度(在压力高达30 kbar时追踪AIAO有序温度的下降)在进一步加压时开始升高,表明存在第二个尚未确定的机制导致非金属行为。然而,磁输运确实追踪了Ir磁性的抑制,仅在AIAO相边界内观察到强磁滞,这与Ho$_2$Ir$_2$O$_7$中发现的类似,并归因于Ir畴的塑性变形。在$p_{\ m c}$附近,我们发现了一种新型电子相的出现,其特征是在最低温度下具有小磁滞的负磁阻,以及在约5 K以上无磁滞的正磁阻。我们发现,在整个压力范围内,低温输运数据的温度依赖性最好由一个与外尔半金属一致的模型来描述。

英文摘要:

Rare-earth pyrochlore iridates host two interlocking magnetic sublattices of corner-sharing tetrahedra and can harbour a unique combination of frustrated moments, exotic excitations and highly correlated electrons. They are also the first systems predicted to display both topological Weyl semimetal and axion insulator phases. We have measured the transport and magnetotransport properties of single-crystal Sm$_2$Ir$_2$O$_7$ up to and beyond the pressure-induced quantum critical point for all-in-all-out (AIAO) Ir order at $p_{\rm c}$ = 63 kbar previously identified by resonant X-ray scattering and close to which Weyl semimetallic behavior has been previously predicted. Our findings overturn the accepted expectation that the suppression of AIAO order should lead to metallic conduction persisting down to zero temperature. Instead, the resistivity-minimum temperature, which tracks the decrease in the AIAO ordering temperature for pressures up to 30~kbar, begins to increase under further application of pressure, pointing to the presence of a second as-yet unidentified mechanism leading to non-metallic behavior. The magnetotransport does track the suppression of Ir magnetism, however, with a strong hysteresis observed only within the AIAO phase boundary, similar to that found for Ho$_2$Ir$_2$O$_7$ and attributed to plastic deformation of Ir domains. Around $p_{\rm c}$ we find the emergence of a new type of electronic phase, characterized by a negative magnetoresistance with small hysteresis at the lowest temperatures, and hysteresis-free positive magnetoresistance above approximately 5 K. The temperature dependence of our low-temperature transport data are found to be best described by a model consistent with a Weyl semimetal across the entire pressure range.

机构、总结、中文摘要均由AI分析而来,可能存在错误,请以论文正文为准。

↑