Lattice dynamics and thermal transport in multiferroic CuCrO2

Bansal, Dipanshu; Niedziela, Jennifer L.; May, Andrew F.; Said, Ayman; Ehlers, Georg; Abernathy, Douglas L.; Huq, Ashfia; Kirkham, Melanie; Zhou, Haidong; Delaire, Olivier

doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.95.054306

Title: Lattice dynamics and thermal transport in multiferroic ${CuCrO}_{2}$

Journal Article · Thu Feb 09 00:00:00 EST 2017 · Physical Review B

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.95.054306· OSTI ID:1361328

Bansal, Dipanshu ^[1]; Niedziela, Jennifer L. ^[1]; May, Andrew F. ^[1]; Said, Ayman ^[2]; Ehlers, Georg ^[1]; Abernathy, Douglas L. ^[1]; Huq, Ashfia ^[1]; Kirkham, Melanie ^[1]; Zhou, Haidong ^[3]; Delaire, Olivier ^[1]

Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)

Inelastic neutron and x-ray scattering measurements of phonons and spin waves were performed in the delafossite compound CuCrO2 over a wide range of temperature, and complemented with first-principles lattice dynamics simulations. The phonon dispersions and density of states are well reproduced by our density functional calculations, and reveal a strong anisotropy of Cu vibrations, which exhibit low-frequency modes of large amplitude parallel to the basal plane of the layered delafossite structure. The low frequency in-plane modes also show a systematic temperature dependence of neutron and x-ray scattering intensities. In addition, we find that spin fluctuations persist above 300 K, far above the Neel temperature for long-range antiferromagnetic order, T-N similar or equal to 24 K. Our modeling of the thermal conductivity, based on our phonon measurements and simulations, reveals a significant anisotropy and indicates that spin fluctuations above TN constitute an important source of phonon scattering, considerably suppressing the thermal conductivity compared to that of the isostructural but nonmagnetic compound CuAlO2.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Spallation Neutron Source (SNS); Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). Solid-State Solar-Thermal Energy Conversion Center (S3TEC); Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725; SC0001299; FG02-09ER46577; SC0016166; AC02-06CH11357; AC02-05CH11231

OSTI ID:: 1361328

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1343331; OSTI ID: 1394380

Journal Information:: Physical Review B, Vol. 95, Issue 5; ISSN 2469-9950

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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