DOE PAGES title logo U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Title: Pressure-Induced Collapse of Magnetic Order in Jarosite

Abstract

We report a pressure-induced phase transition in the frustrated kagomé material jarosite at ~45 GPa , which leads to the disappearance of magnetic order. Using a suite of experimental techniques, we characterize the structural, electronic, and magnetic changes in jarosite through this phase transition. Synchrotron powder x-ray diffraction and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy experiments, analyzed in aggregate with the results from density functional theory calculations, indicate that the material changes from a R 3 ¯ m structure to a structure with a R 3 ¯ c space group. The resulting phase features a rare twisted kagomé lattice in which the integrity of the equilateral Fe 3 + triangles persists. Based on symmetry arguments we hypothesize that the resulting structural changes alter the magnetic interactions to favor a possible quantum paramagnetic phase at high pressure.

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1];  [1];  [2];  [3];  [4];  [5];  [6];  [1];  [6];  [6];  [4];  [1]; ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [1];  [1]
  1. Northwestern University, Evanston, IL (United States)
  2. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
  3. University of Illinois, Chicago, IL (United States)
  4. Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
  5. University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL (United States)
  6. Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Lemont, IL (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
University of Illinois, Chicago, IL (United States); Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
OSTI Identifier:
1650655
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1660736; OSTI ID: 1662035
Report Number(s):
LLNL-JRNL-807945
Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007; TRN: US2203040
Grant/Contract Number:  
NA0003975; AC52-07NA27344; AC02-06CH11357
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physical Review Letters
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 125; Journal Issue: 7; Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; Density of states; Exotic phases of matter; Frustrated magnetism; Magnetic anisotropy; Magnetic coupling; Magnetic interactions; Magnetic order; Magnetic phase transitions; Magnetic susceptibility; Magnetism; Phase transitions; Quantum phase transitions; Spin liquid

Citation Formats

Klein, Ryan  A., Walsh, James P. S., Clarke, Samantha  M., Liu, Zhenxian, Alp, E. Ercan, Bi, Wenli, Meng, Yue, Altman, Alison  B., Chow, Paul, Xiao, Yuming, Norman, M. R., Rondinelli, James  M., Jacobsen, Steven  D., Puggioni, Danilo, and Freedman, Danna E. Pressure-Induced Collapse of Magnetic Order in Jarosite. United States: N. p., 2020. Web. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.125.077202.
Klein, Ryan  A., Walsh, James P. S., Clarke, Samantha  M., Liu, Zhenxian, Alp, E. Ercan, Bi, Wenli, Meng, Yue, Altman, Alison  B., Chow, Paul, Xiao, Yuming, Norman, M. R., Rondinelli, James  M., Jacobsen, Steven  D., Puggioni, Danilo, & Freedman, Danna E. Pressure-Induced Collapse of Magnetic Order in Jarosite. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.125.077202
Klein, Ryan  A., Walsh, James P. S., Clarke, Samantha  M., Liu, Zhenxian, Alp, E. Ercan, Bi, Wenli, Meng, Yue, Altman, Alison  B., Chow, Paul, Xiao, Yuming, Norman, M. R., Rondinelli, James  M., Jacobsen, Steven  D., Puggioni, Danilo, and Freedman, Danna E. Thu . "Pressure-Induced Collapse of Magnetic Order in Jarosite". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.125.077202. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1650655.
@article{osti_1650655,
title = {Pressure-Induced Collapse of Magnetic Order in Jarosite},
author = {Klein, Ryan  A. and Walsh, James P. S. and Clarke, Samantha  M. and Liu, Zhenxian and Alp, E. Ercan and Bi, Wenli and Meng, Yue and Altman, Alison  B. and Chow, Paul and Xiao, Yuming and Norman, M. R. and Rondinelli, James  M. and Jacobsen, Steven  D. and Puggioni, Danilo and Freedman, Danna E.},
abstractNote = {We report a pressure-induced phase transition in the frustrated kagomé material jarosite at ~45 GPa, which leads to the disappearance of magnetic order. Using a suite of experimental techniques, we characterize the structural, electronic, and magnetic changes in jarosite through this phase transition. Synchrotron powder x-ray diffraction and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy experiments, analyzed in aggregate with the results from density functional theory calculations, indicate that the material changes from a R3¯m structure to a structure with a R3¯c space group. The resulting phase features a rare twisted kagomé lattice in which the integrity of the equilateral Fe3+ triangles persists. Based on symmetry arguments we hypothesize that the resulting structural changes alter the magnetic interactions to favor a possible quantum paramagnetic phase at high pressure.},
doi = {10.1103/physrevlett.125.077202},
journal = {Physical Review Letters},
number = 7,
volume = 125,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Aug 13 00:00:00 EDT 2020},
month = {Thu Aug 13 00:00:00 EDT 2020}
}

Journal Article:
Free Publicly Available Full Text
Publisher's Version of Record

Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 3 works
Citation information provided by
Web of Science

Save / Share:

Works referenced in this record:

The laser micro-machining system for diamond anvil cell experiments and general precision machining applications at the High Pressure Collaborative Access Team
journal, July 2015

  • Hrubiak, Rostislav; Sinogeikin, Stanislav; Rod, Eric
  • Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol. 86, Issue 7
  • DOI: 10.1063/1.4926889

Temperature- and pressure-induced spin-state transitions in LaCoO 3
journal, January 2006


Quantum magnetism in minerals
journal, July 2018


Spin chirality on a two-dimensional frustrated lattice
journal, March 2005

  • Grohol, Daniel; Matan, Kittiwit; Cho, Jin-Hyung
  • Nature Materials, Vol. 4, Issue 4
  • DOI: 10.1038/nmat1353

Nuclear Resonance Beamline at ESRF
journal, December 1996

  • Rüffer, Rudolf; Chumakov, Aleksandr I.
  • Hyperfine Interactions, Vol. 97-98, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1007/BF02150199

A thermodynamic theory of “weak” ferromagnetism of antiferromagnetics
journal, January 1958


Generic nearest-neighbor kagome model: XYZ and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya couplings with comparison to the pyrochlore-lattice case
journal, November 2017


Materials discovery at high pressures
journal, February 2017


Pressure tuning of bond-directional exchange interactions and magnetic frustration in the hyperhoneycomb iridate β Li 2 IrO 3
journal, October 2017


Synchrotron Mössbauer source
journal, March 1997


A kagome map of spin liquids from XXZ to Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya ferromagnet
journal, January 2016

  • Essafi, Karim; Benton, Owen; Jaubert, L. D. C.
  • Nature Communications, Vol. 7, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1038/ncomms10297

Quantum spin liquids: a review
journal, November 2016


Spin Waves in the Frustrated Kagomé Lattice Antiferromagnet KFe 3 ( OH ) 6 ( SO 4 ) 2
journal, June 2006


Change in compressibility of  -AlOOH and  -AlOOD at high pressure: A study of isotope effect and hydrogen-bond symmetrization
journal, August 2009

  • Sano-Furukawa, A.; Kagi, H.; Nagai, T.
  • American Mineralogist, Vol. 94, Issue 8-9
  • DOI: 10.2138/am.2009.3109

Schwertmannite and the chemical modeling of iron in acid sulfate waters
journal, June 1996


High-Pressure Synthesis: A New Frontier in the Search for Next-Generation Intermetallic Compounds
journal, May 2018


Finite Elastic Strain of Cubic Crystals
journal, June 1947


Unit-cell refinement from powder diffraction scans
journal, December 1981


Electron-energy-loss spectra and the structural stability of nickel oxide: An LSDA+U study
journal, January 1998

  • Dudarev, S. L.; Botton, G. A.; Savrasov, S. Y.
  • Physical Review B, Vol. 57, Issue 3, p. 1505-1509
  • DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.57.1505

R factors in Rietveld analysis: How good is good enough?
journal, March 2006


Suppression of the magnetic order in CeFeAsO: Nonequivalence of hydrostatic and in-plane chemical pressure
journal, July 2018


Anisotropic elasticity of jarosite: A high-P synchrotron XRD study
journal, December 2009


The law for the volume dependence of superexchange
journal, May 1966


Magnetic structure and spin waves in the Kagomé jarosite compound K Fe 3 ( S O 4 ) 2 ( O H ) 6
journal, June 2006


The Compressibility of Media under Extreme Pressures
journal, September 1944

  • Murnaghan, F. D.
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 30, Issue 9
  • DOI: 10.1073/pnas.30.9.244

Pressure calibration of diamond anvil Raman gauge to 310GPa
journal, August 2006

  • Akahama, Yuichi; Kawamura, Haruki
  • Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 100, Issue 4
  • DOI: 10.1063/1.2335683

Possible Quantum Paramagnetism in Compressed Sr 2 IrO 4
journal, February 2020


Colloquium : Herbertsmithite and the search for the quantum spin liquid
journal, December 2016


Chiral Spin Liquid on a Kagome Antiferromagnet Induced by the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction
journal, June 2017


Magnetic behavior and infrared spectra of jarosite, basic iron sulfate, and their chromate analogs
journal, February 1975

  • Powers, Dana A.; Rossman, George R.; Schugar, Harvey J.
  • Journal of Solid State Chemistry, Vol. 13, Issue 1-2
  • DOI: 10.1016/0022-4596(75)90075-4

High‐Pressure Equation of State for NaCl, KCl, and CsCl
journal, July 1971


DIOPTAS : a program for reduction of two-dimensional X-ray diffraction data and data exploration
journal, May 2015


The visible and infrared spectral properties of jarosite and alunite
journal, July 2005


Kagome–Triangular Lattice Antiferromagnet NaBa 2 Mn 3 F 11
journal, April 2014

  • Ishikawa, Hajime; Okubo, Tsuyoshi; Okamoto, Yoshihiko
  • Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, Vol. 83, Issue 4
  • DOI: 10.7566/JPSJ.83.043703

Long-Range Magnetic Ordering in Iron Jarosites Prepared by Redox-Based Hydrothermal Methods
journal, June 2005

  • Bartlett, Bart M.; Nocera, Daniel G.
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 127, Issue 25
  • DOI: 10.1021/ja050205d

Quantum phase transition induced by Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions in the kagome antiferromagnet
journal, October 2008


Pinwheel valence-bond solid and triplet excitations in the two-dimensional deformed kagome lattice
journal, September 2010

  • Matan, K.; Ono, T.; Fukumoto, Y.
  • Nature Physics, Vol. 6, Issue 11
  • DOI: 10.1038/nphys1761

Magnetic structure of the kagomé lattice antiferromagnet potassium jarosite KFe 3 ( OH ) 6 ( S O 4 ) 2
journal, May 2000


The Resonating Valence Bond State in La2CuO4 and Superconductivity
journal, March 1987


Symmetry breaking due to Dzyaloshinsky-Moriya interactions in the kagomé lattice
journal, July 2002


Pressure-tuned Frustration of Magnetic Coupling in Elemental Europium
journal, February 2019


The equation of state of platinum to 660 GPa (6.6 Mbar)
journal, October 1989

  • Holmes, N. C.; Moriarty, J. A.; Gathers, G. R.
  • Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 66, Issue 7
  • DOI: 10.1063/1.344177

Valence bond phases of herbertsmithite and related copper kagome materials
journal, January 2020


Jarosite as an indicator of water-limited chemical weathering on Mars
journal, October 2004

  • Elwood Madden, M. E.; Bodnar, R. J.; Rimstidt, J. D.
  • Nature, Vol. 431, Issue 7010
  • DOI: 10.1038/nature02971

Spin liquids in frustrated magnets
journal, March 2010


Magnetism of pure iron jarosites
journal, February 2003


Quantum spin liquids
journal, January 2020


Pressure tuning of competing magnetic interactions in intermetallic CeFe 2
journal, July 2012


Thermal equation of state of lower-mantle ferropericlase across the spin crossover: THERMAL EOS OF FERROPERICLASE
journal, December 2011

  • Mao, Zhu; Lin, Jung-Fu; Liu, Jin
  • Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 38, Issue 23
  • DOI: 10.1029/2011GL049915

Spin Frustration in 2D Kagomé Lattices: A Problem for Inorganic Synthetic Chemistry
journal, August 2004

  • Nocera, Daniel G.; Bartlett, Bart M.; Grohol, Daniel
  • Chemistry - A European Journal, Vol. 10, Issue 16
  • DOI: 10.1002/chem.200306074

Efficiency of ab-initio total energy calculations for metals and semiconductors using a plane-wave basis set
journal, July 1996


Probing Valence Orbital Composition with Iron Kβ X-ray Emission Spectroscopy
journal, July 2010

  • Lee, Nicole; Petrenko, Taras; Bergmann, Uwe
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 132, Issue 28
  • DOI: 10.1021/ja101281e

Determination of the single-ion anisotropy energy in a S = 5 2 kagome antiferromagnet using x-ray absorption spectroscopy
journal, January 2009


Solids, liquids, and gases under high pressure
journal, March 2018


New Mechanism of Anisotropic Superexchange Interaction
journal, March 1960


Impact of Pressure on Magnetic Order in Jarosite
journal, July 2018

  • Klein, Ryan A.; Walsh, James P. S.; Clarke, Samantha M.
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 140, Issue 38
  • DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b05601

EosFit7c and a Fortran module (library) for equation of state calculations
journal, January 2014

  • Angel, Ross J.; Alvaro, Matteo; Gonzalez-Platas, Javier
  • Zeitschrift für Kristallographie - Crystalline Materials, Vol. 229, Issue 5
  • DOI: 10.1515/zkri-2013-1711

First principles phonon calculations in materials science
journal, November 2015


Correlation of O-H stretching frequencies and O-H…O hydrogen bond lengths in minerals
journal, August 1999

  • Libowitzky, Engen
  • Monatshefte für Chemie / Chemical Monthly, Vol. 130, Issue 8
  • DOI: 10.1007/BF03354882

Kβ Mainline X-ray Emission Spectroscopy as an Experimental Probe of Metal–Ligand Covalency
journal, June 2014

  • Pollock, Christopher J.; Delgado-Jaime, Mario Ulises; Atanasov, Mihail
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 136, Issue 26
  • DOI: 10.1021/ja504182n

Long-range ordering and representational analysis of the jarosites
journal, January 2001


Provenance and diagenesis of the evaporite-bearing Burns formation, Meridiani Planum, Mars
journal, November 2005

  • McLennan, S. M.; Bell, J. F.; Calvin, W. M.
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Vol. 240, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2005.09.041

CONUSS and PHOENIX: Evaluation of nuclear resonant scattering data
journal, March 2000


Topological magnons in a kagome-lattice spin system with X X Z and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions
journal, April 2018


Hydrostatic limits of 11 pressure transmitting media
journal, March 2009

  • Klotz, S.; Chervin, J-C.; Munsch, P.
  • Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, Vol. 42, Issue 7, Article No. 075413
  • DOI: 10.1088/0022-3727/42/7/075413

Restoring the Density-Gradient Expansion for Exchange in Solids and Surfaces
journal, April 2008


Temperature dependence of nuclear forward scattering of synchrotron radiation in α 57 Fe
journal, September 1994


Magnetic state selected by magnetic dipole interaction in the kagome antiferromagnet NaBa 2 Mn 3 F 11
journal, February 2018


The Chemical Imagination at Work inVery Tight Places
journal, May 2007

  • Grochala, Wojciech; Hoffmann, Roald; Feng, Ji
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Vol. 46, Issue 20
  • DOI: 10.1002/anie.200602485

Magnetism of europium under extreme pressures
journal, May 2016


Nuclear resonant scattering beamline at the Advanced Photon Source
journal, December 1994

  • Alp, E. E.; Mooney, T. M.; Toellner, T.
  • Hyperfine Interactions, Vol. 90, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1007/BF02069136

Observation of the Wigner-Huntington transition to metallic hydrogen
journal, January 2017


Pressure-induced metallization and the collapse of the magnetic state in the antiferromagnetic insulator NiI 2
journal, August 1990


X-ray diffraction and equation of state of solid neon to 110 GPa
journal, June 1989


Jarosite and Hematite at Meridiani Planum from Opportunity's Mössbauer Spectrometer
journal, December 2004


Anisotropic Superexchange Interaction and Weak Ferromagnetism
journal, October 1960


Two proton positions in the very strong hydrogen bond of serandite, NaMn 2 [Si 3 O 8 (OH)]
journal, May 2000

  • Jacobsen, Steven D.; Smyth, Joseph R.; Swope, R. Jeffrey
  • American Mineralogist, Vol. 85, Issue 5-6
  • DOI: 10.2138/am-2000-5-613

Modulated phases and proton centring in ice observed by X-ray diffraction up to 170?GPa
journal, February 1999

  • Loubeyre, Paul; LeToullec, René; Wolanin, Elodie
  • Nature, Vol. 397, Issue 6719
  • DOI: 10.1038/17300

Pressure-induced magnetic and electronic transitions in the layered Mott insulator FeI 2
journal, December 2001


Spin transition of Fe3+ in Al-bearing phase D: An alternative explanation for small-scale seismic scatterers in the mid-lower mantle
journal, November 2013

  • Chang, Yun-Yuan; Jacobsen, Steven D.; Lin, Jung-Fu
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Vol. 382
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2013.08.038

FeC r 2 O 4 spinel to near megabar pressures: Orbital moment collapse and site-inversion facilitated spin crossover
journal, January 2017


The COMPRES/GSECARS gas-loading system for diamond anvil cells at the Advanced Photon Source
journal, September 2008


Improved tetrahedron method for Brillouin-zone integrations
journal, June 1994


Tunnelling and zero-point motion in high-pressure ice
journal, March 1998

  • Benoit, Magali; Marx, Dominik; Parrinello, Michele
  • Nature, Vol. 392, Issue 6673
  • DOI: 10.1038/32609

Nuclear resonant spectroscopy
journal, January 2004


Whole powder pattern decomposition methods and applications: A retrospection
journal, December 2005


Discovery of FeBi 2
journal, October 2016


Reassigning Hydrogen-Bond Centering in Dense Ice
journal, September 2002


Metamaterial-based devices at millimetre and sub-millimetre wavelengths
conference, September 2006


Temperature and pressure-induced spin-state transitions in LaCoO3
text, January 2005