Spin canting and orbital order in spinel vanadate thin films

Thompson, Christie; Reig-i-Plessis, Dalmau; Kish, Lasar; Aczel, A. A.; Zhang, Biwen; Karapetrova, Evguenia A.; MacDougall, Gregory J.; Beekman, Christiane

doi:10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.2.104411

Title: Spin canting and orbital order in spinel vanadate thin films

Journal Article · Thu Oct 25 00:00:00 EDT 2018 · Physical Review Materials

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.2.104411· OSTI ID:1524779

Thompson, Christie ^[1]; Reig-i-Plessis, Dalmau ^[2]; Kish, Lasar ^[2];

^[3]; Zhang, Biwen ^[1]; Karapetrova, Evguenia A. ^[4]; MacDougall, Gregory J. ^[2]; Beekman, Christiane ^[1]

Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL (United States)
Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL (United States)
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Here, we report on the epitaxial film growth and characterization of CoV₂O₄, a near-itinerant spinel vanadate, grown on (001) SrTiO₃. The symmetry lowering of the unit cell from cubic in the bulk to orthorhombic in the films results in dramatic differences in the magnetic anisotropy compared to bulk, as determined from structural and magnetic characterization. Bulk cubic CoV₂O₄ has been found to defy predictions by showing orbital degeneracy seemingly lasting to very low temperatures, with only small anomalies in magnetization and neutron experiments signaling a possible spin/orbital glass transition at T = 90 K. In epitaxial thin films presented in this paper, structurally tuning the CoV₂O₄ away from cubic symmetry leads to a completely different low temperature noncollinear ground state. Via magnetization and neutron scattering measurements we show that the 90-K transition is associated with a major spin reorientation away from the ferrimagnetic easy axis [001] to the [110] direction. Furthermore, the V spins cant away from this direction with extracted perpendicular moments providing evidence of a larger canting angle compared to bulk. This result indicates that compressive strain pushes the system deeper into the insulating state, i.e., away from the localized-itinerant crossover regime.

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Research Organization:: Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

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

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357; AC05-00OR22725

OSTI ID:: 1524779

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1479137; OSTI ID: 1486960

Journal Information:: Physical Review Materials, Vol. 2, Issue 10; ISSN 2475-9953

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