Faure, Q;
Dashwood, CD;
Colin, CV;
Johnson, RD;
Ressouche, E;
Stenning, GBG;
Spratt, J;
... Perry, RS; + view all
(2023)
Magnetic structure and field dependence of the cycloid phase mediating the spin reorientation transition in Ca3Ru2 O7.
Physical Review Research
, 5
(1)
, Article 013040. 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.5.013040.
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Abstract
We report a comprehensive experimental investigation of the magnetic structure of the cycloidal phase in Ca3Ru2O7, which mediates the spin reorientation transition and establishes its magnetic phase diagram. In zero applied field, single-crystal neutron diffraction data confirm the scenario deduced from an earlier resonant x-ray scattering study: For 46.7K <T< 49.0 K the magnetic moments form a cycloid in the a-b plane with a propagation wave vector of (δ,0,1) with δ≃0.025 and an ordered moment of about 1μB, with the eccentricity of the cycloid evolving with temperature. In an applied magnetic field applied parallel to the b axis, the intensity of the (δ,0,1) satellite peaks decreases continuously up to about μ0H≃5T, above which field the system becomes field polarized. Both the eccentricity of the cycloid and the wave vector increase with field, the latter suggesting an enhancement of the antisymmetric Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction over the symmetric exchange interactions via magnetostriction effects. Transitions between the various low-temperature magnetic phases have been carefully mapped out using magnetometry and resistivity. The resulting phase diagram reveals that the cycloid phase exists in a temperature window that expands rapidly with increasing field, before transitioning to a polarized paramagnetic state at 5 T. High-field magnetoresistance measurements show that below T≃70K the resistivity increases continuously with decreasing temperature, indicating the inherent insulating nature at low temperatures of our high-quality, untwinned, single crystals. We discuss our results with reference to previous reports of the magnetic phase diagram of Ca3Ru2O7 that utilized samples which were more metallic and/or polydomain.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Magnetic structure and field dependence of the cycloid phase mediating the spin reorientation transition in Ca3Ru2 O7 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.5.013040 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.5.013040 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article's title, journal citation, and DOI. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Physics and Astronomy UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > London Centre for Nanotechnology |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10166250 |
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