Double-peak specific heat and spin freezing in the spin-2 triangular lattice antiferromagnet FeAl2Se4

Li, Kunkun; Jin, Shifeng; Guo, Jiangang; Xu, Yanping; Su, Yixi; Feng, Erxi; Liu, Yu; Zhou, Shengqiang; Ying, Tianping; Li, Shiyan; Wang, Ziqiang; Chen, Gang; Chen, Xiaolong

doi:10.1103/physrevb.99.054421

Title: Double-peak specific heat and spin freezing in the spin-2 triangular lattice antiferromagnet ${FeAl}_{2} {Se}_{4}$

Journal Article · Tue Feb 19 00:00:00 EST 2019 · Physical Review B

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.99.054421· OSTI ID:1610431

Li, Kunkun ^[1]; Jin, Shifeng ^[1]; Guo, Jiangang ^[2]; Xu, Yanping ^[2]; Su, Yixi ^[3]; Feng, Erxi ^[3]; Liu, Yu ^[4]; Zhou, Shengqiang ^[4]; Ying, Tianping ^[5]; Li, Shiyan ^[6]; Wang, Ziqiang ^[7]; Chen, Gang ^[8]; Chen, Xiaolong ^[9]

Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing (China); Univ. of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing (China)
Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing (China)
Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, Garching (Germany)
Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (Germany)
Fudan Univ., Shanghai (China)
Fudan Univ., Shanghai (China); Nanjing Univ. (China)
Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA (United States)
Fudan Univ., Shanghai (China); The Univ. of Hong Kong (China); Nanjing Univ. (China)
Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing (China); Univ. of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing (China); Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Beijing (China)

We report the properties of a triangular lattice iron-chalcogenide antiferromagnet FeAl₂Se₄.The spin susceptibility reveals a significant antiferromagnetic interaction with a Curie-Weiss temperature Θ_CW ≃ –200 K and a spin-2 local moment. Despite a large spin and a large |Θ_CW|, the low-temperature behaviors are incompatible with conventional classical magnets. No long-range order is detected down to 0.4 K. Similar to the well-known spin-1 magnet NiGa₂S₄, the specific heat of FeAl₂Se₄ exhibits a double-peak structure and a T² power law at low temperatures, which are attributed to the underlying quadrupolar spin correlations and the Halperin-Saslow modes, respectively. The spin freezing occurs at ~14 K, below which the relaxation dynamics is probed by the ac susceptibility. Our results are consistent with the early theory for the spin-1 system with Heisenberg and biquadratic spin interactions. We argue that the early proposal of the quadrupolar correlation and gauge glass dynamics may be well extended to FeAl₂Se₄. Furthermore, our results provide useful insights about the magnetic properties of frustrated quantum magnets with high spins.

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Research Organization:: Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)

Grant/Contract Number:: FG02-99ER45747; 51532010; 51772323; 91422303; 51472266; 2016YFA0301001; 2016YFA0300500

OSTI ID:: 1610431

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1546326

Journal Information:: Physical Review B, Vol. 99, Issue 5; ISSN 2469-9950

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Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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