Anisotropy: Spin order and magnetization of single-crystalline Cu4(OH)6FBr barlowite

Han, Tian-Heng; Isaacs, Eric D.; Schlueter, John A.; Singleton, John

doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.93.214416

Title: Anisotropy: Spin order and magnetization of single-crystalline ${Cu}_{4} {(OH)}_{6} FBr$ barlowite

Journal Article · Wed Jun 15 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · Physical Review B

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.93.214416· OSTI ID:1457234

Han, Tian-Heng ^[1]; Isaacs, Eric D. ^[2]; Schlueter, John A. ^[3];

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Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States). James Frank Inst. and Dept. of Physics; Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Materials Science Division
Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States). James Frank Inst. and Dept. of Physics
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Materials Science Division; National Science Foundation (NSF), Arlington, VA (United States). Division of Materials Research
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Despite decades-long fascination, the difficulty of maintaining high lattice symmetry in frustrated nonbipartite S = $$\frac{1}{2}$$ materials that can also be made into high-quality single crystals has been a persistent challenge. We report magnetization studies of a single-crystal sample of barlowite, Cu₄ (OH)₆ FBr, which has a geometrically perfect kagome motif. At T ≤ 4.2 K and 35 ≤ μ₀H ≤ 65 T, the interlayer spins are fully polarized, and the kagome-intrinsic magnetization is consistent with a Heisenberg model having J/k_B = -180 K. Several field-driven anomalies are observed, having varied scalings with temperature. At an applied field, kagome disorder caused by the interlayer spins is smaller than that in herbertsmithite. At T ≤ 15 K, the bulk magnetic moment comes from the interlayer spins. An almost coplanar spin order suggests that the magnitude of in-plane Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction is smaller than 0.006(6) J. On the other hand, the possibility of a spin-liquid state in the kagome lattice coexisting with ordered interlayer spins is left open.

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Research Organization:: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Science Foundation (NSF)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC52-06NA25396; FG02-99ER45789; AC02-06CH11357; DMR-1157490

OSTI ID:: 1457234

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1257493

Report Number(s):: LA-UR-15-22247; PRBMDO; TRN: US1901319

Journal Information:: Physical Review B, Vol. 93, Issue 21; ISSN 2469-9950

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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