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Title: Possible Quantum Paramagnetism in Compressed Sr 2 IrO 4

Abstract

The result of compression on the magnetic ground state of Sr 2 IrO 4 is studied with x-ray resonant techniques in the diamond anvil cell. The weak interlayer exchange coupling between square-planar 2D IrO 2 layers is easily modified upon compression, with a crossover between magnetic structures around 7 GPa mimicking the effect of an applied magnetic field at ambient pressure. Higher pressures drive an order-disorder magnetic phase transition with no magnetic order detected above 17–20 GPa. The persistence of strong exchange interactions between J eff =1/2 magnetic moments within the insulating IrO 2 layers up to at least 35 GPa points to a highly frustrated magnetic state in compressed Sr 2 IrO 4 , opening the door for realization of novel quantum paramagnetic phases driven by extended 5d orbitals with entangled spin and orbital degrees of freedom.

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ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [1];  [1];  [2];  [3];  [4]; ORCiD logo [1];  [5];  [6];  [7];  [8];  [1]
  1. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Advanced Photon Source (APS)
  2. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Advanced Photon Source (APS); Brazilian Synchrotron Light Lab. (LNLS), Campinas, SP (Brazil); Univ. of Campinas (UNICAMP), Sao Paulo (Brazil). Instituto de Física Gleb Wataghin; Univ. College London, Bloomsbury (United Kingdom). London Centre for Nanotechnology and Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
  3. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Advanced Photon Source (APS); Univ. of Campinas (UNICAMP), Sao Paulo (Brazil). Instituto de Física Gleb Wataghin
  4. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Advanced Photon Source (APS); Brazilian Synchrotron Light Lab. (LNLS), Campinas, SP (Brazil)
  5. Carnegie Inst. of Science, Washington, DC (United States). Geophysical Lab.
  6. Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States). Dept. of Physics
  7. Inst. for Basic Science (IBS), Pohang (South Korea). Center for Artificial Low Dimensional Electronic Systems; Pohang Univ. of Science and Technology (South Korea)
  8. Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States). Dept. of Physics
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Science Foundation (NSF)
OSTI Identifier:
1607469
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1599480
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-06CH11357; DMR-1712101; DMR-1903888; IBS-R014-A2
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physical Review Letters
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 124; Journal Issue: 6; Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; 75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY

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Haskel, D., Fabbris, G., Kim, J. H., Veiga, L. S. I., Mardegan, J. R. L., Escanhoela, C. A., Chikara, S., Struzhkin, V., Senthil, T., Kim, B. J., Cao, G., and Kim, J. -W. Possible Quantum Paramagnetism in Compressed Sr2IrO4. United States: N. p., 2020. Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.067201.
Haskel, D., Fabbris, G., Kim, J. H., Veiga, L. S. I., Mardegan, J. R. L., Escanhoela, C. A., Chikara, S., Struzhkin, V., Senthil, T., Kim, B. J., Cao, G., & Kim, J. -W. Possible Quantum Paramagnetism in Compressed Sr2IrO4. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.067201
Haskel, D., Fabbris, G., Kim, J. H., Veiga, L. S. I., Mardegan, J. R. L., Escanhoela, C. A., Chikara, S., Struzhkin, V., Senthil, T., Kim, B. J., Cao, G., and Kim, J. -W. Tue . "Possible Quantum Paramagnetism in Compressed Sr2IrO4". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.067201. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1607469.
@article{osti_1607469,
title = {Possible Quantum Paramagnetism in Compressed Sr2IrO4},
author = {Haskel, D. and Fabbris, G. and Kim, J. H. and Veiga, L. S. I. and Mardegan, J. R. L. and Escanhoela, C. A. and Chikara, S. and Struzhkin, V. and Senthil, T. and Kim, B. J. and Cao, G. and Kim, J. -W.},
abstractNote = {The result of compression on the magnetic ground state of Sr2IrO4 is studied with x-ray resonant techniques in the diamond anvil cell. The weak interlayer exchange coupling between square-planar 2D IrO2 layers is easily modified upon compression, with a crossover between magnetic structures around 7 GPa mimicking the effect of an applied magnetic field at ambient pressure. Higher pressures drive an order-disorder magnetic phase transition with no magnetic order detected above 17–20 GPa. The persistence of strong exchange interactions between Jeff=1/2 magnetic moments within the insulating IrO2 layers up to at least 35 GPa points to a highly frustrated magnetic state in compressed Sr2IrO4, opening the door for realization of novel quantum paramagnetic phases driven by extended 5d orbitals with entangled spin and orbital degrees of freedom.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.067201},
journal = {Physical Review Letters},
number = 6,
volume = 124,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Feb 11 00:00:00 EST 2020},
month = {Tue Feb 11 00:00:00 EST 2020}
}

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