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Title: Counterrotating magnetic order in the honeycomb layers of NaNi 2 BiO 6 - δ

Abstract

In this paper we report the magnetic structure and electronic properties of the honeycomb antiferromagnet NaNi2BiO5.66. We find magnetic order with moments along the c axis for temperatures below $$T_{c1}$$ = 6.3(1)K and then in the honeycomb plane for $$T < T_{c2}$$ = 4.8(1) K with a counterrotating pattern and an ordering wave vector q = (1/3, 1/3, 0.15(1)). Density functional theory and electron spin resonance indicate this is high-spin Ni3+ magnetism near a high to low spin transition. The ordering wave vector, in-plane magnetic correlations, missing entropy, spin state, and superexchange pathways are all consistent with bond-dependent Kitaev-Γ-Heisenberg exchange interactions in NaNi2BiO6–δ .

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1];  [2];  [3];  [4];  [5];  [1];  [1];  [6];  [4];  [7]
  1. Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD (United States)
  2. Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO (United States); Canadian Inst. for Advanced Research (CIFAR), Toronto, ON (Canada)
  3. Univ. of Toronto, ON (Canada)
  4. Princeton Univ., NJ (United States)
  5. National Inst. of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD (United States); Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States)
  6. Univ. of Toronto, ON (Canada); Canadian Inst. for Advanced Research (CIFAR), Toronto, ON (Canada)
  7. Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD (United States); National Inst. of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD (United States); Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). Institute for Quantum Matter (IQM); Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC); Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI); Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation; National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST); National Science Foundation (NSF)
OSTI Identifier:
1767739
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0019331; DMR-1508249
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physical Review B
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 100; Journal Issue: 21; 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; optics; thermal conductivity; defects; charge transport; superconductivity; magnetism and spin physics; quantum information science; materials and chemistry by design; synthesis (novel materials)

Citation Formats

Scheie, A., Ross, K., Stavropoulos, P. Peter, Seibel, E., Rodriguez-Rivera, J. A., Tang, J. A., Li, Yi, Kee, Hae-Young, Cava, R. J., and Broholm, C. Counterrotating magnetic order in the honeycomb layers of NaNi2BiO6-δ. United States: N. p., 2019. Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.100.214421.
Scheie, A., Ross, K., Stavropoulos, P. Peter, Seibel, E., Rodriguez-Rivera, J. A., Tang, J. A., Li, Yi, Kee, Hae-Young, Cava, R. J., & Broholm, C. Counterrotating magnetic order in the honeycomb layers of NaNi2BiO6-δ. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.100.214421
Scheie, A., Ross, K., Stavropoulos, P. Peter, Seibel, E., Rodriguez-Rivera, J. A., Tang, J. A., Li, Yi, Kee, Hae-Young, Cava, R. J., and Broholm, C. Wed . "Counterrotating magnetic order in the honeycomb layers of NaNi2BiO6-δ". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.100.214421. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1767739.
@article{osti_1767739,
title = {Counterrotating magnetic order in the honeycomb layers of NaNi2BiO6-δ},
author = {Scheie, A. and Ross, K. and Stavropoulos, P. Peter and Seibel, E. and Rodriguez-Rivera, J. A. and Tang, J. A. and Li, Yi and Kee, Hae-Young and Cava, R. J. and Broholm, C.},
abstractNote = {In this paper we report the magnetic structure and electronic properties of the honeycomb antiferromagnet NaNi2BiO5.66. We find magnetic order with moments along the c axis for temperatures below $T_{c1}$ = 6.3(1)K and then in the honeycomb plane for $T < T_{c2}$ = 4.8(1) K with a counterrotating pattern and an ordering wave vector q = (1/3, 1/3, 0.15(1)). Density functional theory and electron spin resonance indicate this is high-spin Ni3+ magnetism near a high to low spin transition. The ordering wave vector, in-plane magnetic correlations, missing entropy, spin state, and superexchange pathways are all consistent with bond-dependent Kitaev-Γ-Heisenberg exchange interactions in NaNi2BiO6–δ .},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevB.100.214421},
journal = {Physical Review B},
number = 21,
volume = 100,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Dec 18 00:00:00 EST 2019},
month = {Wed Dec 18 00:00:00 EST 2019}
}

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