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Title: Frustrated magnetic cycloidal structure and emergent Potts nematicity in CaMn 2 P 2

Abstract

We report neutron-diffraction results on single-crystal CaMn2P2 containing corrugated Mn honeycomb layers, and we determine its ground-state magnetic structure. The diffraction patterns consist of prominent (1/6,1/6, L ) reciprocal-lattice unit (r.l.u.; L = integer) magnetic Bragg reflections, whose temperature-dependent intensities are consistent with a first-order antiferromagnetic phase transition at the Néel temperature TN = 70 (1) K. Our analysis of the diffraction patterns reveals an in-plane 6 × 6 magnetic unit cell with ordered spins that in the principal-axis directions rotate by 60°steps between nearest neighbors on each sublattice that forms the honeycomb structure, consistent with the PAc magnetic space group. We find that a few other magnetic subgroup symmetries (PA2/c, PC2/m, PS1, PC2, PCm, PS1) of the paramagnetic $$P\bar{3}m11'$$ crystal symmetry are consistent with the observed diffraction pattern. We relate our findings to frustrated J1-J2-J3 Heisenberg honeycomb antiferromagnets with single-ion anisotropy and the emergence of Potts nematicity.

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1];  [1];  [2]; ORCiD logo [3]; ORCiD logo [3]; ORCiD logo [3]; ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [1]
  1. Ames Lab., and Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA (United States)
  2. Univ. of Missouri, Columbia, MO (United States)
  3. Ames Lab., Ames, IA (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Ames Laboratory (AMES), Ames, IA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
OSTI Identifier:
1959191
Report Number(s):
IS-J 11,005
Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9950; TRN: US2312840
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-07CH11358
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physical Review. B
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 107; Journal Issue: 5; 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; Frustrated magnetism; Magnetic order; Nematic order; Honeycomb lattice; Pnictides Heisenberg model; Kitaev-Heisenberg model; Potts model

Citation Formats

Islam, Farhan, Trevisan, Thaís V., Heitmann, Thomas, Pakhira, Santanu, Riberolles, Simon M., Sangeetha, N. S., Johnston, David C., Orth, Peter P., and Vaknin, David. Frustrated magnetic cycloidal structure and emergent Potts nematicity in CaMn2P2. United States: N. p., 2023. Web. doi:10.1103/physrevb.107.054425.
Islam, Farhan, Trevisan, Thaís V., Heitmann, Thomas, Pakhira, Santanu, Riberolles, Simon M., Sangeetha, N. S., Johnston, David C., Orth, Peter P., & Vaknin, David. Frustrated magnetic cycloidal structure and emergent Potts nematicity in CaMn2P2. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.107.054425
Islam, Farhan, Trevisan, Thaís V., Heitmann, Thomas, Pakhira, Santanu, Riberolles, Simon M., Sangeetha, N. S., Johnston, David C., Orth, Peter P., and Vaknin, David. Tue . "Frustrated magnetic cycloidal structure and emergent Potts nematicity in CaMn2P2". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.107.054425. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1959191.
@article{osti_1959191,
title = {Frustrated magnetic cycloidal structure and emergent Potts nematicity in CaMn2P2},
author = {Islam, Farhan and Trevisan, Thaís V. and Heitmann, Thomas and Pakhira, Santanu and Riberolles, Simon M. and Sangeetha, N. S. and Johnston, David C. and Orth, Peter P. and Vaknin, David},
abstractNote = {We report neutron-diffraction results on single-crystal CaMn2P2 containing corrugated Mn honeycomb layers, and we determine its ground-state magnetic structure. The diffraction patterns consist of prominent (1/6,1/6, L ) reciprocal-lattice unit (r.l.u.; L = integer) magnetic Bragg reflections, whose temperature-dependent intensities are consistent with a first-order antiferromagnetic phase transition at the Néel temperature TN = 70 (1) K. Our analysis of the diffraction patterns reveals an in-plane 6 × 6 magnetic unit cell with ordered spins that in the principal-axis directions rotate by 60°steps between nearest neighbors on each sublattice that forms the honeycomb structure, consistent with the PAc magnetic space group. We find that a few other magnetic subgroup symmetries (PA2/c, PC2/m, PS1, PC2, PCm, PS1) of the paramagnetic $P\bar{3}m11'$ crystal symmetry are consistent with the observed diffraction pattern. We relate our findings to frustrated J1-J2-J3 Heisenberg honeycomb antiferromagnets with single-ion anisotropy and the emergence of Potts nematicity.},
doi = {10.1103/physrevb.107.054425},
journal = {Physical Review. B},
number = 5,
volume = 107,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Feb 21 00:00:00 EST 2023},
month = {Tue Feb 21 00:00:00 EST 2023}
}

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