Magnetic and structural properties of the iron oxychalcogenides
Abstract
In this paper, we present the results of structural and magnetic phase comparisons of the iron oxychalcogenides La2O2Fe2OM2 (M = S, Se). Elastic neutron scattering reveals that $$M$$ = S and Se have similar nuclear structures at room and low temperatures. Both materials obtain antiferromagnetic ordering at a Neel temperature $$T_{N}$$ 90.1 $$\pm$$ 0.16 K and 107.2 $$\pm$$ 0.06 K for $$M$$ = Se and S, respectively. The magnetic arrangements of $$M$$ = S, Se are obtained through Rietveld refinement and we present the first direct comparison of magnetic structural analysis for these materials. We find the order parameter exponent $$\beta$$ to be 0.129 $$\pm$$ 0.006 for $$M$$ = Se and 0.133 $$\pm$$ 0.007 for $$M$$ = S. Each of these values is near the Ising symmetry value of 1/8. Lastly, this suggests that although lattice and electronic structural modifications result from chalcogen exchange, the nature of the magnetic interactions is similar in these materials.
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
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- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
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- 1491946
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- OSTI ID: 1466721
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- AC02-05-CH1231; AC02-05CH11231
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- Physical Review B
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- Journal Name: Physical Review B Journal Volume: 99 Journal Issue: 2; Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9950
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- American Physical Society
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- United States
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- English
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- 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; 75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY
Citation Formats
Freelon, B., Yamani, Z., Swainson, Ian, Flacau, R., Karki, B., Liu, Yu Hao, Craco, L., Laad, M. S., Wang, Meng, Chen, Jiaqi, Birgeneau, R. J., and Fang, Minghu. Magnetic and structural properties of the iron oxychalcogenides La 2 O 2 Fe 2 O M 2 ( M = S , Se ). United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.99.024109.
Freelon, B., Yamani, Z., Swainson, Ian, Flacau, R., Karki, B., Liu, Yu Hao, Craco, L., Laad, M. S., Wang, Meng, Chen, Jiaqi, Birgeneau, R. J., & Fang, Minghu. Magnetic and structural properties of the iron oxychalcogenides La 2 O 2 Fe 2 O M 2 ( M = S , Se ). United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.99.024109
Freelon, B., Yamani, Z., Swainson, Ian, Flacau, R., Karki, B., Liu, Yu Hao, Craco, L., Laad, M. S., Wang, Meng, Chen, Jiaqi, Birgeneau, R. J., and Fang, Minghu. Thu .
"Magnetic and structural properties of the iron oxychalcogenides La 2 O 2 Fe 2 O M 2 ( M = S , Se )". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.99.024109.
@article{osti_1491946,
title = {Magnetic and structural properties of the iron oxychalcogenides La 2 O 2 Fe 2 O M 2 ( M = S , Se )},
author = {Freelon, B. and Yamani, Z. and Swainson, Ian and Flacau, R. and Karki, B. and Liu, Yu Hao and Craco, L. and Laad, M. S. and Wang, Meng and Chen, Jiaqi and Birgeneau, R. J. and Fang, Minghu},
abstractNote = {In this paper, we present the results of structural and magnetic phase comparisons of the iron oxychalcogenides La2O2Fe2OM2 (M = S, Se). Elastic neutron scattering reveals that $M$ = S and Se have similar nuclear structures at room and low temperatures. Both materials obtain antiferromagnetic ordering at a Neel temperature $T_{N}$ 90.1 $\pm$ 0.16 K and 107.2 $\pm$ 0.06 K for $M$ = Se and S, respectively. The magnetic arrangements of $M$ = S, Se are obtained through Rietveld refinement and we present the first direct comparison of magnetic structural analysis for these materials. We find the order parameter exponent $\beta$ to be 0.129 $\pm$ 0.006 for $M$ = Se and 0.133 $\pm$ 0.007 for $M$ = S. Each of these values is near the Ising symmetry value of 1/8. Lastly, this suggests that although lattice and electronic structural modifications result from chalcogen exchange, the nature of the magnetic interactions is similar in these materials.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevB.99.024109},
journal = {Physical Review B},
number = 2,
volume = 99,
place = {United States},
year = {2019},
month = {1}
}
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.99.024109
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