Magnetic‐Field‐Controlled Quantum Critical Points in the Triangular Antiferromagnetic Cs2CuCl4‐xBrx Mixed System

Well, Natalija van; Ramakrishnan, Sitaram; Beauvois, Ketty; Qureshi, Navid; Ressouche, Eric; Skoulatos, Markos; Georgii, Robert; Zaharko, Oksana und Smaalen, Sander van (2020): Magnetic‐Field‐Controlled Quantum Critical Points in the Triangular Antiferromagnetic Cs2CuCl4‐xBrx Mixed System. In: Annalen der Physik (AdP), Bd. 532, Nr. 7, 2000147

Abstract

The triangular antiferromagnetic Cs2CuCl4‐xBrx mixed system is studied by neutron single‐crystal diffraction in magnetic field. It shows a rich magnetic phase diagram consisting of four regimes depending on the Br concentration and is characterized by different exchange coupling mechanisms. For the investigated compositions from regime I (0 < x ≤ 1.5), a critical magnetic field Bc is found for a Br concentration x = 0.8 at Bc = 8.10(1) T and for x = 1.1 at Bc = 7.73(1) T and from regime IV (3.2 < x < 4) for x = 3.3 at Bc = 0.99(3) T. For magnetic fields larger than the respective Bc, magnetic superlattice reflections of these compounds are not found. The incommensurate magnetic wave vector q = (0, 0.470, 0) appears below the ordering temperature TN = 0.51(1) K for Cs2CuCl3.2Br0.8, and q = (0, 0.418, 0) below TN = 1.00(6) K for Cs2CuCl0.3Br3.7. Neutron diffraction experiments at around 60 mK for x = 3.7 in a magnetic field show the critical magnetic field at Bc = 7.94(16) T and the formation of the second magnetic phase at around 8.5 T depending on the temperature. Inelastic neutron scattering experiments for the compound from regime III (2 < x ≤ 3.2) with x = 2.2 show dynamical correlations at a temperature around 50 mK giving evidence for a spin liquid phase.

• Dokumententyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
• Fakultät: Geowissenschaften > Department für Geo- und Umweltwissenschaften > Kristallographie und Materialwissenschaft
• Themengebiete: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik > 550 Geowissenschaften, Geologie
• Sprache: Englisch