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Title: Spin excitations in the frustrated triangular lattice antiferromagnet NaYbO2

Abstract

In this work, we present a neutron scattering-based study of magnetic excitations and magnetic order in NaYbO2 under the application of an external magnetic field. The crystal electric field-split J = 7=2 multiplet structure is determined, revealing a mixed |mz$$\rangle$$ ground state doublet and is consistent with a recent report Ding et al. Our measurements further suggest signatures of exchange effects in the crystal field spectrum, manifested by a small splitting in energy of the transition into the first excited doublet. The field-dependence of the low-energy magnetic excitations across the transition from the quantum disordered ground state into the fluctuation driven ordered regime is analyzed. Signs of a first-order phase transition into a noncollinear ordered state are revealed at the upper-field phase boundary of the ordered regime, and higher order magnon scattering, suggestive of strong magnon-magnon interactions, is resolved within the previously reported up-up-down phase. Our results reveal a complex phase diagram of field-induced order and spin excitations within NaYbO2 and demonstrate the dominant role of quantum fluctuations cross a broad range of fields within its interlayer frustrated triangular lattice.

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [1];  [1];  [1];  [2]; ORCiD logo [3];  [3]; ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [1]
  1. Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA (United States)
  2. National Inst. of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD (United States)
  3. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
OSTI Identifier:
1782235
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0017752; FG02-08ER46524
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physical Review B
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 101; Journal Issue: 22; Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9950
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE

Citation Formats

Bordelon, Mitchell M., Liu, Chunxiao, Posthuma, Lorenzo, Sarte, P. M., Butch, N. P., Pajerowski, Daniel M., Banerjee, Arnab, Balents, Leon, and Wilson, Stephen D. Spin excitations in the frustrated triangular lattice antiferromagnet NaYbO2. United States: N. p., 2020. Web. doi:10.1103/physrevb.101.224427.
Bordelon, Mitchell M., Liu, Chunxiao, Posthuma, Lorenzo, Sarte, P. M., Butch, N. P., Pajerowski, Daniel M., Banerjee, Arnab, Balents, Leon, & Wilson, Stephen D. Spin excitations in the frustrated triangular lattice antiferromagnet NaYbO2. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.101.224427
Bordelon, Mitchell M., Liu, Chunxiao, Posthuma, Lorenzo, Sarte, P. M., Butch, N. P., Pajerowski, Daniel M., Banerjee, Arnab, Balents, Leon, and Wilson, Stephen D. Mon . "Spin excitations in the frustrated triangular lattice antiferromagnet NaYbO2". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.101.224427. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1782235.
@article{osti_1782235,
title = {Spin excitations in the frustrated triangular lattice antiferromagnet NaYbO2},
author = {Bordelon, Mitchell M. and Liu, Chunxiao and Posthuma, Lorenzo and Sarte, P. M. and Butch, N. P. and Pajerowski, Daniel M. and Banerjee, Arnab and Balents, Leon and Wilson, Stephen D.},
abstractNote = {In this work, we present a neutron scattering-based study of magnetic excitations and magnetic order in NaYbO2 under the application of an external magnetic field. The crystal electric field-split J = 7=2 multiplet structure is determined, revealing a mixed |mz$\rangle$ ground state doublet and is consistent with a recent report Ding et al. Our measurements further suggest signatures of exchange effects in the crystal field spectrum, manifested by a small splitting in energy of the transition into the first excited doublet. The field-dependence of the low-energy magnetic excitations across the transition from the quantum disordered ground state into the fluctuation driven ordered regime is analyzed. Signs of a first-order phase transition into a noncollinear ordered state are revealed at the upper-field phase boundary of the ordered regime, and higher order magnon scattering, suggestive of strong magnon-magnon interactions, is resolved within the previously reported up-up-down phase. Our results reveal a complex phase diagram of field-induced order and spin excitations within NaYbO2 and demonstrate the dominant role of quantum fluctuations cross a broad range of fields within its interlayer frustrated triangular lattice.},
doi = {10.1103/physrevb.101.224427},
journal = {Physical Review B},
number = 22,
volume = 101,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Jun 22 00:00:00 EDT 2020},
month = {Mon Jun 22 00:00:00 EDT 2020}
}

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