Antiferromagnetic and Orbital Ordering on a Diamond Lattice Near Quantum Criticality
Abstract
Here, we present neutron scattering measurements on powder samples of the spinel FeSc 2 S 4 that reveal a previously unobserved magnetic ordering transition occurring at 11.8(2) K. Magnetic ordering occurs subsequent to a subtle cubic-to-tetragonal structural transition that distorts Fe coordinating sulfur tetrahedra and lifts the orbital degeneracy. Furthermore, the orbital ordering is not truly long ranged, but occurs over finite-sized domains that limit magnetic correlation lengths. During the application of 1 GPa hydrostatic pressure appears to destabilize this Néel state, reducing the transition temperature to 8.6(8) K and redistributing magnetic spectral weight to higher energies. The relative magnitudes of ordered 2= 3.1(2) μ$$2\atop{B}$$ and fluctuating moments < δm >= 13(1) μ$$2\atop{B}$$ show that the magnetically ordered state of FeSc 2 S 4 is drastically renormalized and close to criticality.
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- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Spallation Neutron Source (SNS)
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- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
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- Physical Review. X
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- Journal Name: Physical Review. X Journal Volume: 6 Journal Issue: 4; Journal ID: ISSN 2160-3308
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- American Physical Society
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- English
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- 75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; condensed matter physics; magnetism; strongly correlated materials
Citation Formats
Plumb, K. W., Morey, J. R., Rodriguez-Rivera, J. A., Wu, Hui, Podlesnyak, A. A., McQueen, T. M., and Broholm, C. L. Antiferromagnetic and Orbital Ordering on a Diamond Lattice Near Quantum Criticality. United States: N. p., 2016.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevX.6.041055.
Plumb, K. W., Morey, J. R., Rodriguez-Rivera, J. A., Wu, Hui, Podlesnyak, A. A., McQueen, T. M., & Broholm, C. L. Antiferromagnetic and Orbital Ordering on a Diamond Lattice Near Quantum Criticality. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.6.041055
Plumb, K. W., Morey, J. R., Rodriguez-Rivera, J. A., Wu, Hui, Podlesnyak, A. A., McQueen, T. M., and Broholm, C. L. Fri .
"Antiferromagnetic and Orbital Ordering on a Diamond Lattice Near Quantum Criticality". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.6.041055.
@article{osti_1336888,
title = {Antiferromagnetic and Orbital Ordering on a Diamond Lattice Near Quantum Criticality},
author = {Plumb, K. W. and Morey, J. R. and Rodriguez-Rivera, J. A. and Wu, Hui and Podlesnyak, A. A. and McQueen, T. M. and Broholm, C. L.},
abstractNote = {Here, we present neutron scattering measurements on powder samples of the spinel FeSc 2 S 4 that reveal a previously unobserved magnetic ordering transition occurring at 11.8(2) K. Magnetic ordering occurs subsequent to a subtle cubic-to-tetragonal structural transition that distorts Fe coordinating sulfur tetrahedra and lifts the orbital degeneracy. Furthermore, the orbital ordering is not truly long ranged, but occurs over finite-sized domains that limit magnetic correlation lengths. During the application of 1 GPa hydrostatic pressure appears to destabilize this Néel state, reducing the transition temperature to 8.6(8) K and redistributing magnetic spectral weight to higher energies. The relative magnitudes of ordered 2= 3.1(2) μ$2\atop{B}$ and fluctuating moments < δm >= 13(1) μ$2\atop{B}$ show that the magnetically ordered state of FeSc 2 S 4 is drastically renormalized and close to criticality.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevX.6.041055},
journal = {Physical Review. X},
number = 4,
volume = 6,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Dec 16 00:00:00 EST 2016},
month = {Fri Dec 16 00:00:00 EST 2016}
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https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.6.041055
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