Magnetic interactions and spin dynamics in the bond-disordered pyrochlore fluoride
Abstract
We report high-frequency/high-field electron spin resonance (ESR) and high-field magnetization studies on single crystals of the bond-disordered pyrochlore NaCaCo2F7. Frequency- and temperature-dependent ESR investigations above the freezing temperature Tf ~ 2.4 K reveal the coexistence of two distinct magnetic phases. Here, a cooperative paramagnetic phase, evidenced by a gapless excitation mode, is found along with a spin-glass phase developing below 20 K which is associated with a gapped low-energy excitation. Effective g factors close to 2 are obtained for both modes, in line with pulsed high-field magnetization measurements which show an unsaturated isotropic behavior up to 58 T at 2 K. In order to describe the field-dependent magnetization in high magnetic fields, we propose an empirical model accounting for highly anisotropic ionic g tensors expected for this material and taking into account the strongly competing interactions between the spins which lead to a frustrated ground state. As a detailed quantitative relation between effective g factors as determined from ESR and the local g tensors obtained by neutron scattering is still sought after, our work motivates further theoretical investigations of the low-energy excitations in bond-disordered pyrochlores.
- Authors:
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- Leibniz Inst. for Solid State and Materials Research IFW Dresden (Germany); TU Dresden (Germany)
- TU Dresden (Germany)
- Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Dresden (Germany)
- Princeton Univ., NJ (United States)
- TU Dresden (Germany); Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Dresden (Germany)
- Leibniz Inst. for Solid State and Materials Research IFW Dresden (Germany)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1610025
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1504536
- Grant/Contract Number:
- FG02-08ER46544
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review B
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 99; Journal Issue: 15; 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; material science; physics; frustrated magnetism; magnetic insulators; pyrochlore; electron spin resonance; magnetization measurements
Citation Formats
Zeisner, J., Bräuninger, S. A., Opherden, L., Sarkar, R., Gorbunov, D. I., Krizan, J. W., Herrmannsdörfer, T., Cava, R. J., Wosnitza, J., Büchner, B., Klauss, H. -H., and Kataev, V. Magnetic interactions and spin dynamics in the bond-disordered pyrochlore fluoride NaCaCo2F7. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1103/physrevb.99.155104.
Zeisner, J., Bräuninger, S. A., Opherden, L., Sarkar, R., Gorbunov, D. I., Krizan, J. W., Herrmannsdörfer, T., Cava, R. J., Wosnitza, J., Büchner, B., Klauss, H. -H., & Kataev, V. Magnetic interactions and spin dynamics in the bond-disordered pyrochlore fluoride NaCaCo2F7. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.99.155104
Zeisner, J., Bräuninger, S. A., Opherden, L., Sarkar, R., Gorbunov, D. I., Krizan, J. W., Herrmannsdörfer, T., Cava, R. J., Wosnitza, J., Büchner, B., Klauss, H. -H., and Kataev, V. Mon .
"Magnetic interactions and spin dynamics in the bond-disordered pyrochlore fluoride NaCaCo2F7". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.99.155104. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1610025.
@article{osti_1610025,
title = {Magnetic interactions and spin dynamics in the bond-disordered pyrochlore fluoride NaCaCo2F7},
author = {Zeisner, J. and Bräuninger, S. A. and Opherden, L. and Sarkar, R. and Gorbunov, D. I. and Krizan, J. W. and Herrmannsdörfer, T. and Cava, R. J. and Wosnitza, J. and Büchner, B. and Klauss, H. -H. and Kataev, V.},
abstractNote = {We report high-frequency/high-field electron spin resonance (ESR) and high-field magnetization studies on single crystals of the bond-disordered pyrochlore NaCaCo2F7. Frequency- and temperature-dependent ESR investigations above the freezing temperature Tf ~ 2.4 K reveal the coexistence of two distinct magnetic phases. Here, a cooperative paramagnetic phase, evidenced by a gapless excitation mode, is found along with a spin-glass phase developing below 20 K which is associated with a gapped low-energy excitation. Effective g factors close to 2 are obtained for both modes, in line with pulsed high-field magnetization measurements which show an unsaturated isotropic behavior up to 58 T at 2 K. In order to describe the field-dependent magnetization in high magnetic fields, we propose an empirical model accounting for highly anisotropic ionic g tensors expected for this material and taking into account the strongly competing interactions between the spins which lead to a frustrated ground state. As a detailed quantitative relation between effective g factors as determined from ESR and the local g tensors obtained by neutron scattering is still sought after, our work motivates further theoretical investigations of the low-energy excitations in bond-disordered pyrochlores.},
doi = {10.1103/physrevb.99.155104},
journal = {Physical Review B},
number = 15,
volume = 99,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Apr 01 00:00:00 EDT 2019},
month = {Mon Apr 01 00:00:00 EDT 2019}
}
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