Structural transition and orbital glass physics in near-itinerant CoV2O4

Reig-i-Plessis, D.; Casavant, D.; Garlea, Vasile O.; Aczel, Adam A.; Feygenson, Mikhail; Neuefeind, Joerg C.; Zhou, H. D.; Nagler, Stephen E.; MacDougall, Gregory J.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.93.014437

Title: Structural transition and orbital glass physics in near-itinerant CoV₂O₄

Journal Article · Mon Jan 25 00:00:00 EST 2016 · Physical Review B

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.93.014437· OSTI ID:1238026

Reig-i-Plessis, D. ^[1]; Casavant, D. ^[1]; Garlea, Vasile O. ^[2]; Aczel, Adam A. ^[2]; Feygenson, Mikhail ^[2]; Neuefeind, Joerg C. ^[2]; Zhou, H. D. ^[3]; Nagler, Stephen E. ^[4]; MacDougall, Gregory J. ^[1]

Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL (United States)
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States); Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL (United States)
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)

In this study, the ferrimagnetic spinel CoV₂O₄ has been a topic of intense recent interest, both as a frustrated insulator with unquenched orbital degeneracy and as a near-itinerant magnet which can be driven metallic with moderate applied pressure. Here, we report on our recent neutron di raction and inelastic scattering measurements on powders with minimal cation site disorder. Our main new result is the identification of a weak (Δa/a ~ 10^–4), first order structural phase transition at T* = 90 K, the same temperature where spin canting was seen in recent single crystal measurements. This transition is characterized by a short-range distortion of oxygen octahedral positions, and inelastic data further establish a weak 1.25meV spin gap at low temperature. Together, these findings provide strong support for the local orbital picture and the existence of an orbital glass state at temperatures below T*.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR); Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Spallation Neutron Source (SNS)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725

OSTI ID:: 1238026

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1235951; OSTI ID: 1335333

Journal Information:: Physical Review B, Vol. 93, Issue 1; ISSN 2469-9950

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