Tuning the antiferromagnetic helical pitch length and nanoscale domain size in Fe3PO4O3 by magnetic dilution

Tarne, M. J.; Bordelon, M. M.; Calder, S.; Neilson, J. R.; Ross, K. A.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.96.214431

Title: Tuning the antiferromagnetic helical pitch length and nanoscale domain size in ${Fe}_{3} {PO}_{4} O_{3}$ by magnetic dilution

Journal Article · Tue Dec 26 00:00:00 EST 2017 · Physical Review B

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.96.214431· OSTI ID:1486922

Tarne, M. J. ^[1]; Bordelon, M. M. ^[1]; Calder, S. ^[2]; Neilson, J. R. ^[1]; Ross, K. A. ^[1]

Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO (United States)
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

The insulating magnetic material Fe₃PO₄O₃ features a noncentrosymmetric lattice composed of Fe³+ triangular units. Frustration, due to competing near-neighbor (J₁) and next-nearest-neighbor (J₂) antiferromagnetic interactions, was recently suggested to be the origin of an antiferromagnetic helical ground state with unusual needlelike nanoscale magnetic domains in Fe₃PO₄O₃. Magnetic dilution is shown here to tune the ratio of these magnetic interactions, thus providing deeper insight into this unconventional antiferromagnet. Dilution of the Fe³⁺ lattice in Fe₃PO₄O₃ was accomplished by substituting nonmagnetic Ga³⁺ to form the solid solution series Fe_3-xGa_xPO₄O₃ with x=0.012, 0.06, 0.25, 0.5, 1.0, 1.5. Magnetic susceptibility and neutron powder diffraction data from this series are presented. A continuous decrease of both the helical pitch length and the domain size is observed with increasing dilution up to at least x=0.25, while for x≥0.5, the compounds lack long-range magnetic order entirely. The decrease in the helical pitch length with increasing x can be qualitatively understood by reduction of the ratio of J₂/J₁ in the Heisenberg model, consistent with mean-field considerations. Intriguingly, the magnetic correlation length in the ab plane remains nearly equal to the pitch length for each value of x≤0.25, showing that the two quantities are intrinsically connected in this unusual antiferromagnet.

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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:: 1486922

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1414866

Journal Information:: Physical Review B, Vol. 96, Issue 21; ISSN 2469-9950

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