Ferromagnetic cluster-glass phase in Ca(Co1-xIrx)2-yAs2 crystals

Pakhira, Santanu; Sangeetha, N. S.; Smetana, V.; Mudring, A.-V.; Johnston, D. C.

doi:10.1103/physrevb.102.024410

Ferromagnetic cluster-glass phase in Ca(Co_1-xIr_x)_2-yAs₂ crystals

Journal Article · Tue Jul 07 00:00:00 EDT 2020 · Physical Review B

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.102.024410· OSTI ID:1639043

^[1]; Sangeetha, N. S. ^[1]; ^[2]; Mudring, A.-V. ^[2]; ^[3]

Ames Lab., Ames, IA (United States)
Stockholm Univ. (Sweden)
Ames Lab., and Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA (United States)

In this study, single crystals of Ca(Co_1-xIr_x)_2-yAs₂ with 0≤x≤0.35 and 0.10≤y≤0.14 have been grown using the self-flux technique and characterized by single-crystal x-ray diffraction (XRD), energy-dispersive x-ray spectroscopy, magnetization M, and magnetic susceptibility χ measurements versus temperature T, magnetic field H, and time t, and heat-capacity C_p(H,T) measurements. The XRD refinements reveal that all the Ir-substituted crystals crystallize in a collapsed-tetragonal structure as does the parent CaCo_2-yAs₂ compound. A small 3.3% Ir substitution for Co in CaCo_1.86As₂ drastically lowers the A-type antiferromagnetic (AFM) transition temperature T_N from 52 to 23 K with a significant enhancement of the Sommerfeld electronic heat-capacity coefficient. The A-type AFM structure consists of ab-plane layers of spins ferromagnetically aligned along the c axis with AFM alignment of the spins in adjacent layers along this axis. The positive Weiss temperatures obtained from Curie-Weiss fits to the χ(T>T_N) data indicate that the dominant magnetic interactions are ferromagnetic (FM) for all x. A magnetic phase boundary is inferred to be present between x=0.14 and x=0.17 from a discontinuity in the x dependencies of the effective moment and Weiss temperature in the Curie-Weiss fits. FM fluctuations that strongly increase with increasing x are also revealed from the χ(T) data. Furthermore, the magnetic ground state for x≥0.17 is a spin glass as indicated by hysteresis in χ(T) between field-cooled and zero-field-cooled measurements and from the relaxation of M in a small field that exhibits a stretched-exponential time dependence. The spin glass has a small FM component to the ordering and is hence inferred to be comprised of small FM clusters. The competing AFM and FM interactions along with crystallographic disorder associated with Ir substitution are inferred to be responsible for the development of a FM cluster-glass phase. A logarithmic T dependence of Cp at low T for x=0.14 is consistent with the presence of significant FM quantum fluctuations. This composition is near the T=0 boundary at x≈0.16 between the A-type AFM phase containing ferromagnetically-aligned layers of spins and the FM cluster-glass phase.

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Research Organization:: Ames Laboratory (AMES), Ames, IA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-07CH11358

OSTI ID:: 1639043

Report Number(s):: IS-J--10,265

Journal Information:: Physical Review B, Journal Name: Physical Review B Journal Issue: 2 Vol. 102; ISSN 2469-9950

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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