Hydrostatic pressure effects on the magnetic susceptibility of ruthenium oxide Sr3Ru2O7: evidence for pressure-enhanced antiferromagnetic instability

Autor: B.A. deHarak, Gargi Shaw, Gang Cao, Joseph W. Brill, D.K. Powell, Yuri Sushko
Rok vydání: 2004
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Zdroj: Solid State Communications. 130:341-346
ISSN: 0038-1098
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssc.2004.02.010
Popis: Hydrostatic pressure effects on the temperature- and magnetic field dependencies of the in-plane and out-of-plane magnetization of the bi-layered perovskite Sr 3 Ru 2 O 7 have been studied by SQUID magnetometer measurements under a hydrostatic helium-gas pressure. The anomalously enhanced low-temperature value of the paramagnetic susceptibility has been found to systematically decrease with increasing pressure. The effect is accompanied by an increase of the temperature T max of a pronounced peak of susceptibility. Thus, magnetization measurements under hydrostatic pressure reveal that the lattice contraction in the structure of Sr 3 Ru 2 O 7 promotes antiferromagnetism and not ferromagnetism. The effects can be explained by the enhancement of the inter-bi-layer antiferromagnetic spin coupling, driven by the shortening of the superexchange path, and suppression, due to the band-broadening effect, of competing itinerant ferromagnetic correlations.
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