Spin order and dynamics in the diamond-lattice Heisenberg antiferromagnets CuRh2O4 and CoRh2O4

Ge, L.; Flynn, J.; Paddison, Joseph A. M.; Stone, Matthew B.; Calder, Stuart A.; Subramanian, M. A.; Ramirez, A. P.; Mourigal, Martin P.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.96.064413

Title: Spin order and dynamics in the diamond-lattice Heisenberg antiferromagnets ${CuRh}_{2} O_{4}$ and ${CoRh}_{2} O_{4}$

Journal Article · Wed Aug 09 00:00:00 EDT 2017 · Physical Review B

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.96.064413· OSTI ID:1471939

Ge, L. ^[1]; Flynn, J. ^[2]; Paddison, Joseph A. M. ^[3];

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^[4]; Subramanian, M. A. ^[2]; Ramirez, A. P. ^[5];

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Georgia Inst. of Technology, Atlanta, GA (United States)
Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR (United States)
Georgia Inst. of Technology, Atlanta, GA (United States); Univ. of Cambridge, Cambridge (United Kingdom)
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, CA (United States)

Here, antiferromagnetic insulators on a diamond lattice are candidate materials to host exotic magnetic phenomena ranging from spin-orbital entanglement to degenerate spiral ground states and topological paramagnetism. Compared to other three-dimensional networks of magnetic ions, such as the geometrically frustrated pyrochlore lattice, the investigation of diamond-lattice magnetism in real materials is less mature. In this work, we characterize the magnetic properties of model A-site spinels CoRh₂O₄ (cobalt rhodite) and CuRh₂O₄ (copper rhodite) by means of thermomagnetic and neutron-scattering measurements, and we perform group theory analysis, Rietveld refinement, mean-field theory, and spin-wave theory calculations to analyze the experimental results. Our investigation reveals that cubic CoRh₂O₄ is a canonical S = 3/2 diamond-lattice Heisenberg antiferromagnet with a nearest-neighbor exchange J = 0.63 meV and a Néel ordered ground state below a temperature of 25 K. In tetragonally distorted CuRh₂O₄, competing exchange interactions between up to third-nearest-neighbor spins lead to the development of an incommensurate spin helix at 24 K with a magnetic propagation vector k_m = (0,0,0.79). Strong reduction of the ordered moment is observed for the S = 1/2 spins in CuRh₂O₄ and captured by our 1/S corrections to the staggered magnetization. Our work identifies CoRh₂O₄ and CuRh₂O₄ as reference materials to guide future work searching for exotic quantum behavior in diamond-lattice antiferromagnets.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

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

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OSTI ID:: 1471939

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1374655

Journal Information:: Physical Review B, Vol. 96, Issue 6; ISSN 2469-9950

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