Three-dimensional checkerboard spin structure on a breathing pyrochlore lattice
Abstract
The standard approach to realize a spin-liquid state is through magnetically frustrated states, relying on ingredients such as the lattice geometry, dimensionality, and magnetic interaction type of the spins. While Heisenberg spins on a pyrochlore lattice with only antiferromagnetic nearest-neighbor interactions are theoretically proven disordered, spins in real systems generally include longer-range interactions. The spatial correlations at longer distances typically stabilize a long-range order rather than enhancing a spin-liquid state. Both states can, however, be destroyed by short-range static correlations introduced by chemical disorder. Here, using disorder-free specimens with a clear long-range antiferromagnetic order, we refine the spin structure of the Heisenberg spinel ZnFe2O4through neutron magnetic diffraction. The unique wave vector (1, 0, $$\frac{1}{2}$$) leads to a spin structure that can be viewed as alternatively stacked ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic tetrahedra in a three-dimensional checkerboard form. Stable coexistence of these opposing types of clusters is enabled by the bipartite breathing pyrochlore crystal structure, leading to a second-order phase transition at 10 K. The diffraction intensity of ZnFe2O4 is an exact complement to the inelastic scattering intensity of several chromate spinel systems which are regarded as model classical spin liquids. Our results challenge this attribution, and suggest instead of the six-spin ring mode, spin excitations in chromate spinels are closely related to the (1, 0, $$\frac{1}{2}$$) type of spin order and the four-spin ferromagnetic cluster locally at one tetrahedron.
- Authors:
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[3];
[4];
- Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (Japan)
- Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS), Prague (Czech Republic)
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- California Institute of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States)
- 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). Scientific User Facilities (SUF); US Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 2324011
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC05-00OR22725; FA9550-20-1-0263
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review. B
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 109; Journal Issue: 6; 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
Citation Formats
Dronova, Margarita G., Petříček, Václav, Morgan, Zachary, Ye, Feng, Silevitch, Daniel M., and Feng, Yejun. Three-dimensional checkerboard spin structure on a breathing pyrochlore lattice. United States: N. p., 2024.
Web. doi:10.1103/physrevb.109.064421.
Dronova, Margarita G., Petříček, Václav, Morgan, Zachary, Ye, Feng, Silevitch, Daniel M., & Feng, Yejun. Three-dimensional checkerboard spin structure on a breathing pyrochlore lattice. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.109.064421
Dronova, Margarita G., Petříček, Václav, Morgan, Zachary, Ye, Feng, Silevitch, Daniel M., and Feng, Yejun. Fri .
"Three-dimensional checkerboard spin structure on a breathing pyrochlore lattice". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.109.064421. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/2324011.
@article{osti_2324011,
title = {Three-dimensional checkerboard spin structure on a breathing pyrochlore lattice},
author = {Dronova, Margarita G. and Petříček, Václav and Morgan, Zachary and Ye, Feng and Silevitch, Daniel M. and Feng, Yejun},
abstractNote = {The standard approach to realize a spin-liquid state is through magnetically frustrated states, relying on ingredients such as the lattice geometry, dimensionality, and magnetic interaction type of the spins. While Heisenberg spins on a pyrochlore lattice with only antiferromagnetic nearest-neighbor interactions are theoretically proven disordered, spins in real systems generally include longer-range interactions. The spatial correlations at longer distances typically stabilize a long-range order rather than enhancing a spin-liquid state. Both states can, however, be destroyed by short-range static correlations introduced by chemical disorder. Here, using disorder-free specimens with a clear long-range antiferromagnetic order, we refine the spin structure of the Heisenberg spinel ZnFe2O4through neutron magnetic diffraction. The unique wave vector (1, 0, $\frac{1}{2}$) leads to a spin structure that can be viewed as alternatively stacked ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic tetrahedra in a three-dimensional checkerboard form. Stable coexistence of these opposing types of clusters is enabled by the bipartite breathing pyrochlore crystal structure, leading to a second-order phase transition at 10 K. The diffraction intensity of ZnFe2O4 is an exact complement to the inelastic scattering intensity of several chromate spinel systems which are regarded as model classical spin liquids. Our results challenge this attribution, and suggest instead of the six-spin ring mode, spin excitations in chromate spinels are closely related to the (1, 0, $\frac{1}{2}$) type of spin order and the four-spin ferromagnetic cluster locally at one tetrahedron.},
doi = {10.1103/physrevb.109.064421},
journal = {Physical Review. B},
number = 6,
volume = 109,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Feb 23 00:00:00 EST 2024},
month = {Fri Feb 23 00:00:00 EST 2024}
}
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