Resonant x-ray scattering reveals possible disappearance of magnetic order under hydrostatic pressure in the Kitaev candidate
Abstract
Honeycomb iridates such as γ-Li2IrO3 are argued to realize Kitaev spin-anisotropic magnetic exchange, along with Heisenberg and possibly other couplings. While systems with pure Kitaev interactions are candidates to realize a quantum spin-liquid ground state, in γ-Li2IrO3 it has been shown that the presence of competing magnetic interactions leads to an incommensurate spiral spin order at ambient pressure below 38 K. We study the pressure sensitivity of this magnetically ordered state in single crystals of γ-Li2IrO3 using resonant x-ray scattering (RXS) under applied hydrostatic pressures of up to 3 GPa. RXS is a direct probe of electronic order, and we observe the abrupt disappearance of the qsp=(0.57,0,0) spiral order at a critical pressure Pc=1.4 GPa with no accompanying change in the symmetry of the lattice.
- Authors:
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- Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Physics; Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Materials Science Division
- Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Physics; Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Advanced Light Source
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Advanced Photon Source; Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL (United States). Dept. of Geology
- Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Physics
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Advanced Photon Source
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- Research Org.:
- Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (United States); National Science Foundation (NSF)
- Contributing Org.:
- Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL (United States)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1372316
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1368419; OSTI ID: 1466704
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0014039; AC02-06CH11357; GBMF4374; EAR-1606856; AC02-05CH11231
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review B
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 96; Journal Issue: 2; Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9950
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; frustrated magnetism; magnetic phase transitions; magnetic insulators; x-ray resonant magnetic scattering; condensed matter and materials physics
Citation Formats
Breznay, Nicholas P., Ruiz, Alejandro, Frano, Alex, Bi, Wenli, Birgeneau, Robert J., Haskel, Daniel, and Analytis, James G.. Resonant x-ray scattering reveals possible disappearance of magnetic order under hydrostatic pressure in the Kitaev candidate γ-Li2IrO3. United States: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.96.020402.
Breznay, Nicholas P., Ruiz, Alejandro, Frano, Alex, Bi, Wenli, Birgeneau, Robert J., Haskel, Daniel, & Analytis, James G.. Resonant x-ray scattering reveals possible disappearance of magnetic order under hydrostatic pressure in the Kitaev candidate γ-Li2IrO3. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.96.020402
Breznay, Nicholas P., Ruiz, Alejandro, Frano, Alex, Bi, Wenli, Birgeneau, Robert J., Haskel, Daniel, and Analytis, James G.. Wed .
"Resonant x-ray scattering reveals possible disappearance of magnetic order under hydrostatic pressure in the Kitaev candidate γ-Li2IrO3". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.96.020402. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1372316.
@article{osti_1372316,
title = {Resonant x-ray scattering reveals possible disappearance of magnetic order under hydrostatic pressure in the Kitaev candidate γ-Li2IrO3},
author = {Breznay, Nicholas P. and Ruiz, Alejandro and Frano, Alex and Bi, Wenli and Birgeneau, Robert J. and Haskel, Daniel and Analytis, James G.},
abstractNote = {Honeycomb iridates such as γ-Li2IrO3 are argued to realize Kitaev spin-anisotropic magnetic exchange, along with Heisenberg and possibly other couplings. While systems with pure Kitaev interactions are candidates to realize a quantum spin-liquid ground state, in γ-Li2IrO3 it has been shown that the presence of competing magnetic interactions leads to an incommensurate spiral spin order at ambient pressure below 38 K. We study the pressure sensitivity of this magnetically ordered state in single crystals of γ-Li2IrO3 using resonant x-ray scattering (RXS) under applied hydrostatic pressures of up to 3 GPa. RXS is a direct probe of electronic order, and we observe the abrupt disappearance of the qsp=(0.57,0,0) spiral order at a critical pressure Pc=1.4 GPa with no accompanying change in the symmetry of the lattice.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevB.96.020402},
journal = {Physical Review B},
number = 2,
volume = 96,
place = {United States},
year = {2017},
month = {7}
}
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