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

Title: Low-energy spin dynamics in rare-earth perovskite oxides

Abstract

We review recent studies of spin dynamics in rare-earth orthorhombic perovskite oxides of the type RMO3, where R is a rare-earth ion and M is a transition-metal ion, using single-crystal inelastic neutron scattering (INS). After a short introduction to the magnetic INS technique in general, the results of INS experiments on both transition-metal and rare-earth subsystems for four selected compounds (YbFeO3, TmFeO3, YFeO3, YbAlO3) are presented. We show that the spectrum of magnetic excitations consists of two types of collective modes that are well separated in energy: gapped magnons with a typical bandwidth of <70 meV, associated with the antiferromagnetically (AFM) ordered transition-metal subsystem, and AFM fluctuations of <5 meV within the rare-earth subsystem, with no hybridization of those modes. We discuss the high-energy conventional magnon excitations of the 3d subsystem only briefly, and focus in more detail on the spectacular dynamics of the rare-earth sublattice in these materials. We observe that the nature of the ground state and the low-energy excitation strongly depends on the identity of the rare-earth ion. In the case of non-Kramers ions, the low-symmetry crystal field completely eliminates the degeneracy of the multiplet state, creating a rich magnetic field-temperature phase diagram. In the case ofmore » Kramers ions, the resulting ground state is at least a doublet, which can be viewed as an effective quantum spin-1/2. Equally important is the fact that in Yb-based materials the nearest-neighbor exchange interaction dominates in one direction, despite the three-dimensional nature of the orthoperovskite crystal structure. The observation of a fractional spinon continuum and quantum criticality in YbAlO3 demonstrates that Kramers rare-earth based magnets can provide realizations of various aspects of quantum low-dimensional physics.« less

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1];  [2]; ORCiD logo [1]
  1. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
  2. Paul Scherrer Inst. (PSI), Villigen (Switzerland)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
OSTI Identifier:
1812269
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC05-00OR22725
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Journal of Physics. Condensed Matter
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 33; Journal Issue: 40; Journal ID: ISSN 0953-8984
Publisher:
IOP Publishing
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY

Citation Formats

Podlesnyak, Andrey A., Nikitin, Stanislav, and Ehlers, Georg. Low-energy spin dynamics in rare-earth perovskite oxides. United States: N. p., 2021. Web. doi:10.1088/1361-648x/ac1367.
Podlesnyak, Andrey A., Nikitin, Stanislav, & Ehlers, Georg. Low-energy spin dynamics in rare-earth perovskite oxides. United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-648x/ac1367
Podlesnyak, Andrey A., Nikitin, Stanislav, and Ehlers, Georg. Wed . "Low-energy spin dynamics in rare-earth perovskite oxides". United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-648x/ac1367. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1812269.
@article{osti_1812269,
title = {Low-energy spin dynamics in rare-earth perovskite oxides},
author = {Podlesnyak, Andrey A. and Nikitin, Stanislav and Ehlers, Georg},
abstractNote = {We review recent studies of spin dynamics in rare-earth orthorhombic perovskite oxides of the type RMO3, where R is a rare-earth ion and M is a transition-metal ion, using single-crystal inelastic neutron scattering (INS). After a short introduction to the magnetic INS technique in general, the results of INS experiments on both transition-metal and rare-earth subsystems for four selected compounds (YbFeO3, TmFeO3, YFeO3, YbAlO3) are presented. We show that the spectrum of magnetic excitations consists of two types of collective modes that are well separated in energy: gapped magnons with a typical bandwidth of <70 meV, associated with the antiferromagnetically (AFM) ordered transition-metal subsystem, and AFM fluctuations of <5 meV within the rare-earth subsystem, with no hybridization of those modes. We discuss the high-energy conventional magnon excitations of the 3d subsystem only briefly, and focus in more detail on the spectacular dynamics of the rare-earth sublattice in these materials. We observe that the nature of the ground state and the low-energy excitation strongly depends on the identity of the rare-earth ion. In the case of non-Kramers ions, the low-symmetry crystal field completely eliminates the degeneracy of the multiplet state, creating a rich magnetic field-temperature phase diagram. In the case of Kramers ions, the resulting ground state is at least a doublet, which can be viewed as an effective quantum spin-1/2. Equally important is the fact that in Yb-based materials the nearest-neighbor exchange interaction dominates in one direction, despite the three-dimensional nature of the orthoperovskite crystal structure. The observation of a fractional spinon continuum and quantum criticality in YbAlO3 demonstrates that Kramers rare-earth based magnets can provide realizations of various aspects of quantum low-dimensional physics.},
doi = {10.1088/1361-648x/ac1367},
journal = {Journal of Physics. Condensed Matter},
number = 40,
volume = 33,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Jul 28 00:00:00 EDT 2021},
month = {Wed Jul 28 00:00:00 EDT 2021}
}

Works referenced in this record:

Matrix Elements and Operator Equivalents Connected with the Magnetic Properties of Rare Earth Ions
journal, March 1952


Critical and off-critical properties of the XXZ chain in external homogeneous and staggered magnetic fields
journal, March 1995

  • Alcaraz, F. C.; Malvezzi, A. L.
  • Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General, Vol. 28, Issue 6
  • DOI: 10.1088/0305-4470/28/6/009

Neutron diffraction study of weak antiferromagnetism in ytterbium orthoferrite
journal, August 1983


Review of Recent Work on the Magnetic and Spectroscopic Properties of the Rare‐Earth Orthoferrites
journal, March 1969


Antiperovskites with Exceptional Functionalities
journal, November 2019


SEQUOIA: A Newly Operating Chopper Spectrometer at the SNS
journal, November 2010


The geometric blueprint of perovskites
journal, May 2018

  • Filip, Marina R.; Giustino, Feliciano
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 115, Issue 21
  • DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1719179115

Optical spectra of even-electron rare earth ions in the orthoferrites
journal, May 1970


Resolving the spin reorientation and crystal-field transitions in TmFeO3 with terahertz transient
journal, March 2016

  • Zhang, Kailin; Xu, Kai; Liu, Xiumei
  • Scientific Reports, Vol. 6, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1038/srep23648

Multiple fermion scattering in the weakly coupled spin-chain compound YbAlO3
journal, June 2021


Neutron scattering lengths and cross sections
journal, January 1992


Low-temperature spin dynamics in the TmFeO 3 orthoferrite with a non-Kramers ion
journal, January 2020


Inertia-driven spin switching in antiferromagnets
journal, August 2009

  • Kimel, A. V.; Ivanov, B. A.; Pisarev, R. V.
  • Nature Physics, Vol. 5, Issue 10
  • DOI: 10.1038/nphys1369

Linear spin wave theory for single-Q incommensurate magnetic structures
journal, March 2015


The new cold neutron chopper spectrometer at the Spallation Neutron Source: Design and performance
journal, August 2011

  • Ehlers, G.; Podlesnyak, A. A.; Niedziela, J. L.
  • Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol. 82, Issue 8
  • DOI: 10.1063/1.3626935

Solitonic lattice and Yukawa forces in the rare-earth orthoferrite TbFeO3
journal, June 2012

  • Artyukhin, Sergey; Mostovoy, Maxim; Jensen, Niels Paduraru
  • Nature Materials, Vol. 11, Issue 8
  • DOI: 10.1038/nmat3358

Magnetic phase diagram of the quantum spin chain compound SrCo 2 V 2 O 8 : a single-crystal neutron diffraction study
journal, July 2019


Low-energy spin dynamics of orthoferrites AFeO 3 (A  =  Y, La, Bi)
journal, May 2018

  • Park, Kisoo; Sim, Hasung; Leiner, Jonathan C.
  • Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Vol. 30, Issue 23
  • DOI: 10.1088/1361-648X/aac06b

DAVE: A Comprehensive Software Suite for the Reduction, Visualization, and Analysis of Low Energy Neutron Spectroscopic Data
journal, November 2009

  • Azuah, Richard Tumanjong; Kneller, Larry R.; Qiu, Yiming
  • Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Vol. 114, Issue 6
  • DOI: 10.6028/jres.114.025

Antiferromagnetic ordering in the ytterbium aluminum perovskite YbAlO3
journal, March 1981


On the relative contributions of precessional and longitudinal oscillations to the dynamics of magnets
journal, October 1999


Laser-induced ultrafast spin reorientation in the antiferromagnet TmFeO3
journal, June 2004

  • Kimel, A. V.; Kirilyuk, A.; Tsvetkov, A.
  • Nature, Vol. 429, Issue 6994
  • DOI: 10.1038/nature02659

Orbital-exchange and fractional quantum number excitations in an f-electron metal, Yb 2 Pt 2 Pb
journal, June 2016


Using McPhase to calculate magnetic phase diagrams of rare earth compounds
journal, May 2004


Neutron Scattering and the Frequency Distribution of the Normal Modes of Vanadium Metal
journal, December 1955

  • Brockhouse, B. N.
  • Canadian Journal of Physics, Vol. 33, Issue 12
  • DOI: 10.1139/p55-105

Design and operation of the wide angular-range chopper spectrometer ARCS at the Spallation Neutron Source
journal, January 2012

  • Abernathy, D. L.; Stone, M. B.; Loguillo, M. J.
  • Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol. 83, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1063/1.3680104

Magnetic excitations in the longitudinally amplitude modulated magnetic structure of PrNi 2 Si 2
journal, October 2011


Magnetism of perovskite cobaltites with Kramers rare-earth ions
journal, May 2014

  • Jirák, Z.; Hejtmánek, J.; Knížek, K.
  • Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 115, Issue 17
  • DOI: 10.1063/1.4862946

A brief review on perovskite multiferroics
journal, January 2017


Antiferromagnetic ordering and dipolar interactions of YbAlO 3
journal, May 2019


Ultrafast non-thermal control of magnetization by instantaneous photomagnetic pulses
journal, May 2005

  • Kimel, A. V.; Kirilyuk, A.; Usachev, P. A.
  • Nature, Vol. 435, Issue 7042
  • DOI: 10.1038/nature03564

Crystal field excitations of NdFeO3
journal, February 1995

  • Przeniosło, R.; Sosnowska, I.; Loewenhaupt, M.
  • Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, Vol. 140-144
  • DOI: 10.1016/0304-8853(94)01280-6

Mantid—Data analysis and visualization package for neutron scattering and μ SR experiments
journal, November 2014

  • Arnold, O.; Bilheux, J. C.; Borreguero, J. M.
  • Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Vol. 764
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2014.07.029

Magnetic and structural properties of spin-reorientation transitions in orthoferrites
journal, June 2007

  • Tsymbal, L. T.; Bazaliy, Ya. B.; Derkachenko, V. N.
  • Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 101, Issue 12
  • DOI: 10.1063/1.2749404

Review on Recent Progress of All‐Inorganic Metal Halide Perovskites and Solar Cells
journal, September 2019


Evidence for a spinon Fermi surface in a triangular-lattice quantum-spin-liquid candidate
journal, December 2016


Field-tunable quantum disordered ground state in the triangular-lattice antiferromagnet NaYbO2
journal, July 2019


Metal halide perovskite nanostructures for optoelectronic applications and the study of physical properties
journal, February 2019


Quantum spin transistor with a Heisenberg spin chain
journal, October 2016

  • Marchukov, O. V.; Volosniev, A. G.; Valiente, M.
  • Nature Communications, Vol. 7, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1038/ncomms13070

Origin of ferroelectricity in perovskite oxides
journal, July 1992


Structural properties of TmFeO3 in the spontaneous reorientation region
journal, August 2006

  • Tsymbal, L. T.; Kamenev, V. I.; Khara, D. A.
  • Low Temperature Physics, Vol. 32, Issue 8
  • DOI: 10.1063/1.2219499

Fractional spinon excitations in the quantum Heisenberg antiferromagnetic chain
journal, June 2013

  • Mourigal, Martin; Enderle, Mechthild; Klöpperpieper, Axel
  • Nature Physics, Vol. 9, Issue 7
  • DOI: 10.1038/nphys2652

Dynamical spin reorientation transition in NdFeO 3 single crystal observed with polarized terahertz time domain spectroscopy
journal, August 2013

  • Jiang, Junjie; Jin, Zuanming; Song, Gaibei
  • Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 103, Issue 6
  • DOI: 10.1063/1.4818135

Perovskite: Name Puzzle and German‐Russian Odyssey of Discovery
journal, May 2020


The cold neutron chopper spectrometer at the Spallation Neutron Source—A review of the first 8 years of operation
journal, September 2016

  • Ehlers, G.; Podlesnyak, A. A.; Kolesnikov, A. I.
  • Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol. 87, Issue 9
  • DOI: 10.1063/1.4962024

Horace : Software for the analysis of data from single crystal spectroscopy experiments at time-of-flight neutron instruments
journal, October 2016

  • Ewings, R. A.; Buts, A.; Le, M. D.
  • Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Vol. 834
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2016.07.036

Anisotropic magnetic entropy change in RFeO3 single crystals(R = Tb, Tm, or Y)
journal, January 2016

  • Ke, Ya-Jiao; Zhang, Xiang-Qun; Ma, Yue
  • Scientific Reports, Vol. 6, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1038/srep19775

Thermal changes of the crystal structure and the influence of thermo-chemical annealing on the optical properties of YbAlO 3 crystals
journal, January 2010


Chemical Structures and Performance of Perovskite Oxides
journal, July 2001

  • Pena, M.; Fierro, J.
  • Chemical Reviews, Vol. 101, Issue 7, p. 1981-2018
  • DOI: 10.1021/cr980129f

The ALPS project release 1.3: Open-source software for strongly correlated systems
journal, March 2007

  • Albuquerque, A. F.; Alet, F.; Corboz, P.
  • Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, Vol. 310, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.jmmm.2006.10.304

One-dimensional spinon spin currents
journal, September 2016

  • Hirobe, Daichi; Sato, Masahiro; Kawamata, Takayuki
  • Nature Physics, Vol. 13, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1038/nphys3895

Quantum Criticality in an Ising Chain: Experimental Evidence for Emergent E 8 Symmetry
journal, January 2010


Neutron inelastic scattering study of rare-earth orthoferrite HoFeO3
journal, August 2020

  • Ovsyanikov, A. K.; Zobkalo, I. A.; Schmidt, W.
  • Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, Vol. 507
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.jmmm.2020.166855

Tomonaga–Luttinger liquid behavior and spinon confinement in YbAlO3
journal, February 2019


Field-induced incommensurate ordering in Heisenberg chains coupled by Ising interaction: Model for ytterbium aluminum perovskite YbAlO 3
journal, June 2019

  • Agrapidis, Cliò Efthimia; van den Brink, Jeroen; Nishimoto, Satoshi
  • Physical Review B, Vol. 99, Issue 22
  • DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.99.224423

Multiferroics: a magnetic twist for ferroelectricity
journal, January 2007

  • Cheong, Sang-Wook; Mostovoy, Maxim
  • Nature Materials, Vol. 6, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1038/nmat1804

Relaxing with relaxors: a review of relaxor ferroelectrics
journal, April 2011


Confinement of fractional quantum number particles in a condensed-matter system
journal, November 2009

  • Lake, Bella; Tsvelik, Alexei M.; Notbohm, Susanne
  • Nature Physics, Vol. 6, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1038/nphys1462

Structures et propriétés magnétiques des orthocobaltites de terres rares TCoO3
journal, January 1970


Linear Antiferromagnetic Chain with Anisotropic Coupling
journal, October 1958