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Title: Electronic structure of the frustrated diamond lattice magnet NiRh 2 O 4

Journal Article · · Physical Review. B

We report the A -site spinel NiRh2O4 is the only known realization of a spin-1 diamond lattice magnet and is predicted to host unconventional magnetic phenomena driven by frustrated nearest and next-nearest neighbor exchange as well as orbital degeneracy. Previous works found no sign of magnetic order but found a gapped dispersive magnetic excitation indicating a possible valence bond magnetic ground state. However, the presence of many competing low energy degrees of freedom and limited empirical microscopic constraints complicates further analysis. Here we carry out resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS), x-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS), and inelastic neutron scattering (INS) to characterize the local electronic structure and lattice dynamics of NiRh2O4. The RIXS data can be partly described by a single-ion model for tetrahedrally coordinated Ni2+ and indicates a tetragonal distortion Δt2 = 70 meV that splits the t2 orbitals into a high energy orbital singlet and lower energy orbital doublet. We identify features of the RIXS spectra that are consistent with a Rh-Ni two-site excitation indicating strong metal-metal hybridization mediated by oxygen in NiRh2O4. We also identify signatures of electron-phonon coupling through the appearance of phonon sidebands that dress crystal field excitations. These results establish the key energy scales relevant to the magnetism in NiRh2O4 and further demonstrate that covalency and lattice dynamics play essential roles in controlling the magnetic ground states of A -site spinels.

Research Organization:
Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Science Foundation (NSF)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0012704; SC002165; SC0019331; DMR-175018; AC02-06CH11357
OSTI ID:
1889167
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1908130
Report Number(s):
BNL-223418-2022-JAAM; TRN: US2310052
Journal Information:
Physical Review. B, Vol. 106, Issue 4; ISSN 2469-9950
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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