Magnetic and electronic ordering phenomena in the Ru2O6 -layer honeycomb lattice compound AgRuO3
| Autor: | Bella Lake, Hubertus Luetkens, Evgenia V. Komleva, Ekaterina S. Klyushina, Sukanya Pal, Sergey V. Streltsov, Igor Mazin, A. K. Sood, D. V. S. Muthu, Walter Schnelle, Dmitry D. Khalyavin, Martin Jansen, Beluvalli E. Prasad, Pascal Manuel, J. C. Orain, Claudia Felser |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Phase transition
Materials science Condensed matter physics Magnetism Neutron diffraction 02 engineering and technology Electronic structure Muon spin spectroscopy 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology 01 natural sciences Magnetic susceptibility symbols.namesake 0103 physical sciences symbols Antiferromagnetism 010306 general physics 0210 nano-technology Raman spectroscopy |
| Zdroj: | Physical Review B. 103 |
| ISSN: | 2469-9969 2469-9950 |
| DOI: | 10.1103/physrevb.103.214413 |
| Popis: | The silver ruthenium oxide AgRuO3 consists of honeycomb Ru25+O62- layers and can be considered an analogue of SrRu2O6 with a different intercalation. We present measurements of magnetic susceptibility and specific heat on AgRuO3 single crystals, which reveal a sharp antiferromagnetic transition at 342(3) K. The electrical transport in single crystals of AgRuO3 is determined by a combination of activated conduction over an intrinsic semiconducting gap of â��100 meV and carriers trapped and thermally released from defects. From powder neutron diffraction data a NA©el-type antiferromagnetic structure with the Ru moments along the c axis is derived. Raman spectroscopy on AgRuO3 single crystals and muon spin rotation spectroscopy on powder samples indicate a further weak phase transition or a crossover in the temperature range 125-200 K. The transition does not show up in the magnetic susceptibility, and its origin is argued to be related to defects but cannot be fully clarified. The experimental findings are complemented by density-functional-theory-based electronic structure calculations. It is found that the magnetism in AgRuO3 is similar to that in SrRu2O6, however, with stronger intralayer and weaker interlayer magnetic exchange interactions. © 2021 authors. Published by the American Physical Society. |
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