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Title: Magnetization reversal driven by electron localization-delocalization crossover in the inverse spinel Co 2 VO 4

Abstract

Neutron diffraction, magnetization, and muon spin relaxation measurements, supplemented by density functional theory (DFT) calculations are employed to unravel temperature-driven magnetization reversal in inverse spinel Co2VO4. All measurements show a second-order magnetic phase transition at TC = 168 K to a collinear ferrimagnetic phase. Neutron diffraction measurements reveal two antiparallel ferromagnetic (FM) sublattices, belonging to magnetic ions on two distinct crystal lattice sites, where the relative balance between the two sublattices determine the net FM moment in the unit cell. As the evolution of the ordered moment with temperature differs between the two sublattices, the net magnetic moment reaches a maximum at TNC = 138 K and reverses its sign at TMR = 65 K. The DFT results suggest that the underlying microscopic mechanism for the reversal is a delocalization of the unfilled 3d -shell electrons on one sublattice just below TC, followed by a gradual localization as the temperature is lowered. Furthermore, this delocalized-localized crossover is supported by muon spectroscopy results, as strong T1 relaxation observed below TC indicates fluctuating internal fields.

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [2]; ORCiD logo [2];  [3];  [2]; ORCiD logo [2];  [2]; ORCiD logo [4]; ORCiD logo [5];  [5];  [1]; ORCiD logo [2]; ORCiD logo [6]
  1. Univ. i Stavanger (Norway)
  2. Ames Lab., and Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA (United States)
  3. STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab., Oxon (United Kingdom)
  4. Vienna Univ. of Technology (Austria); AGH Univ. of Science and Technology, Krakow (Poland)
  5. Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie, Berlin (Germany)
  6. Technical Univ. of Denmark, Lyngby (Denmark); European Spallation Source, Lund (Sweden)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Ames Lab., Ames, IA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division
OSTI Identifier:
1875272
Report Number(s):
IS-J 10,743
Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9950; TRN: US2307180
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-07CH11358
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physical Review. B
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 105; Journal Issue: 9; 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; Density of states; Ferrimagnetism; Metal-insulator transition; Oxides; Spinels; Density functional calculations; Magnetization measurements; Muon spin relaxation & rotation; Neutron scattering

Citation Formats

Kademane, Abhijit Bhat, Bhandari, Churna, Paudyal, Durga, Cottrell, Stephen, Das, Pinaki, Liu, Yong, Yiu, Yuen, Kumar, C. Naveen, Siemensmeyer, Konrad, Hoser, Andreas, Quintero-Castro, Diana Lucia, Vaknin, David, and Toft-Petersen, Rasmus. Magnetization reversal driven by electron localization-delocalization crossover in the inverse spinel Co2VO4. United States: N. p., 2022. Web. doi:10.1103/physrevb.105.094408.
Kademane, Abhijit Bhat, Bhandari, Churna, Paudyal, Durga, Cottrell, Stephen, Das, Pinaki, Liu, Yong, Yiu, Yuen, Kumar, C. Naveen, Siemensmeyer, Konrad, Hoser, Andreas, Quintero-Castro, Diana Lucia, Vaknin, David, & Toft-Petersen, Rasmus. Magnetization reversal driven by electron localization-delocalization crossover in the inverse spinel Co2VO4. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.105.094408
Kademane, Abhijit Bhat, Bhandari, Churna, Paudyal, Durga, Cottrell, Stephen, Das, Pinaki, Liu, Yong, Yiu, Yuen, Kumar, C. Naveen, Siemensmeyer, Konrad, Hoser, Andreas, Quintero-Castro, Diana Lucia, Vaknin, David, and Toft-Petersen, Rasmus. Mon . "Magnetization reversal driven by electron localization-delocalization crossover in the inverse spinel Co2VO4". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.105.094408. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1875272.
@article{osti_1875272,
title = {Magnetization reversal driven by electron localization-delocalization crossover in the inverse spinel Co2VO4},
author = {Kademane, Abhijit Bhat and Bhandari, Churna and Paudyal, Durga and Cottrell, Stephen and Das, Pinaki and Liu, Yong and Yiu, Yuen and Kumar, C. Naveen and Siemensmeyer, Konrad and Hoser, Andreas and Quintero-Castro, Diana Lucia and Vaknin, David and Toft-Petersen, Rasmus},
abstractNote = {Neutron diffraction, magnetization, and muon spin relaxation measurements, supplemented by density functional theory (DFT) calculations are employed to unravel temperature-driven magnetization reversal in inverse spinel Co2VO4. All measurements show a second-order magnetic phase transition at TC = 168 K to a collinear ferrimagnetic phase. Neutron diffraction measurements reveal two antiparallel ferromagnetic (FM) sublattices, belonging to magnetic ions on two distinct crystal lattice sites, where the relative balance between the two sublattices determine the net FM moment in the unit cell. As the evolution of the ordered moment with temperature differs between the two sublattices, the net magnetic moment reaches a maximum at TNC = 138 K and reverses its sign at TMR = 65 K. The DFT results suggest that the underlying microscopic mechanism for the reversal is a delocalization of the unfilled 3d -shell electrons on one sublattice just below TC, followed by a gradual localization as the temperature is lowered. Furthermore, this delocalized-localized crossover is supported by muon spectroscopy results, as strong T1 relaxation observed below TC indicates fluctuating internal fields.},
doi = {10.1103/physrevb.105.094408},
journal = {Physical Review. B},
number = 9,
volume = 105,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Mar 07 00:00:00 EST 2022},
month = {Mon Mar 07 00:00:00 EST 2022}
}

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