Magnetic ground states and magnetodielectric effect in ( and Ho)
Abstract
Here, the layered perovskites RCr(BO3)2 (R = Y and Ho) with magnetic triangular lattices were studied by performing ac/dc susceptibility, specific heat, elastic and inelastic neutron scattering, and dielectric constant measurements. The results show (i) both samples' Cr3+ spins order in a canted antiferromagnetic structure with TN around 8–9 K, while the Ho3+ ions do not order down to T=1.5 K in HoCr(BO3)2; (ii) when a critical magnetic field HC around 2-3 T is applied below TN, the Cr3+ spins in the Y compound and both the Cr3+ and Ho3+ spins in the Ho compound order in a ferromagnetic state; (iii) both samples exhibit dielectric constant anomalies around the transition temperature and critical field, but the Ho compound displays a much stronger magnetodielectric response. We speculate that this is due to the magnetostriction, which depends on both the Cr3+ and the Ho3+ ions' ordering in the Ho compound. Moreover, by using linear spin-wave theory to simulate the inelastic neutron scattering data, we estimated the Y compound's intralayer and interlayer exchange strengths as ferromagnetic J1 = –0.12 meV and antiferromagnetic J2 = 0.014 meV, respectively. The competition between different kinds of superexchange interactions results in the ferromagnetic intralayer interaction.
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- Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
- Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States); Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL (United States)
- Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL (United States)
- Anhui Univ., Anhui (People's Republic of China)
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
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- Research Org.:
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1486972
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1355953
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC05-00OR22725
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review B
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 95; Journal Issue: 17; 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
Citation Formats
Sinclair, R., Zhou, H. D., Lee, Minseong, Choi, E. Sang, Li, G., Hong, Tao, and Calder, Stuart A. Magnetic ground states and magnetodielectric effect in RCr(BO3)2 (R=Y and Ho). United States: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.95.174410.
Sinclair, R., Zhou, H. D., Lee, Minseong, Choi, E. Sang, Li, G., Hong, Tao, & Calder, Stuart A. Magnetic ground states and magnetodielectric effect in RCr(BO3)2 (R=Y and Ho). United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.95.174410
Sinclair, R., Zhou, H. D., Lee, Minseong, Choi, E. Sang, Li, G., Hong, Tao, and Calder, Stuart A. Mon .
"Magnetic ground states and magnetodielectric effect in RCr(BO3)2 (R=Y and Ho)". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.95.174410. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1486972.
@article{osti_1486972,
title = {Magnetic ground states and magnetodielectric effect in RCr(BO3)2 (R=Y and Ho)},
author = {Sinclair, R. and Zhou, H. D. and Lee, Minseong and Choi, E. Sang and Li, G. and Hong, Tao and Calder, Stuart A.},
abstractNote = {Here, the layered perovskites RCr(BO3)2 (R = Y and Ho) with magnetic triangular lattices were studied by performing ac/dc susceptibility, specific heat, elastic and inelastic neutron scattering, and dielectric constant measurements. The results show (i) both samples' Cr3+ spins order in a canted antiferromagnetic structure with TN around 8–9 K, while the Ho3+ ions do not order down to T=1.5 K in HoCr(BO3)2; (ii) when a critical magnetic field HC around 2-3 T is applied below TN, the Cr3+ spins in the Y compound and both the Cr3+ and Ho3+ spins in the Ho compound order in a ferromagnetic state; (iii) both samples exhibit dielectric constant anomalies around the transition temperature and critical field, but the Ho compound displays a much stronger magnetodielectric response. We speculate that this is due to the magnetostriction, which depends on both the Cr3+ and the Ho3+ ions' ordering in the Ho compound. Moreover, by using linear spin-wave theory to simulate the inelastic neutron scattering data, we estimated the Y compound's intralayer and interlayer exchange strengths as ferromagnetic J1 = –0.12 meV and antiferromagnetic J2 = 0.014 meV, respectively. The competition between different kinds of superexchange interactions results in the ferromagnetic intralayer interaction.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevB.95.174410},
journal = {Physical Review B},
number = 17,
volume = 95,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon May 08 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Mon May 08 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
}
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