kth.sePublications
Change search
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf
Competition between magnetic interactions and structural instabilities leading to itinerant frustration in the triangular lattice antiferromagnet LiCrSe2
KTH, School of Engineering Sciences (SCI), Applied Physics, Materials and Nanophysics.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4441-8882
Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute (JASRI), 1-1-1 Kouto, Sayo, 679-5198, Japan.
Department of Quantum Matter Physics, University of Geneva, 24 Quai Ernest-Ansermet, 1211, Geneva, Switzerland; Department of Physics, University of Zürich, Winterthurerstr. 190, 8057, Zürich, Switzerland.
Chalmers University of Technology, Department of Physics, Göteborg, SE-412 96, Sweden.
Show others and affiliations
2023 (English)In: Communications Materials, E-ISSN 2662-4443, Vol. 4, no 1, article id 81Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

LiCrSe2 constitutes a recent valuable addition to the ensemble of two-dimensional triangular lattice antiferromagnets. In this work, we present a comprehensive study of the low temperature nuclear and magnetic structure established in this material. Being subject to a strong magnetoelastic coupling, LiCrSe2 was found to undergo a first order structural transition from a trigonal crystal system (P3 ¯ m1) to a monoclinic one (C2/m) at T s = 30 K. Such restructuring of the lattice is accompanied by a magnetic transition at T N = 30 K. Refinement of the magnetic structure with neutron diffraction data and complementary muon spin rotation analysis reveal the presence of a complex incommensurate magnetic structure with a up-up-down-down arrangement of the chromium moments with ferromagnetic double chains coupled antiferromagnetically. The spin axial vector is also modulated both in direction and modulus, resulting in a spin density wave-like order with periodic suppression of the chromium moment along the chains. This behavior is believed to appear as a result of strong competition between direct exchange antiferromagnetic and superexchange ferromagnetic couplings established between both nearest neighbor and next nearest neighbor Cr3+ ions. We finally conjecture that the resulting magnetic order is stabilized via subtle vacancy/charge order within the lithium layers, potentially causing a mix of two co-existing magnetic phases within the sample.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Springer Nature , 2023. Vol. 4, no 1, article id 81
National Category
Condensed Matter Physics
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-338336DOI: 10.1038/s43246-023-00407-xISI: 001082516900001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85173564755OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-338336DiVA, id: diva2:1806328
Note

Correction in 10.1038/s43246-023-00426-8

QC 20231020

Available from: 2023-10-20 Created: 2023-10-20 Last updated: 2023-12-07Bibliographically approved

Open Access in DiVA

No full text in DiVA

Other links

Publisher's full textScopus

Authority records

Nocerino, ElisabettaMatsubara, NamiMånsson, Martin

Search in DiVA

By author/editor
Nocerino, ElisabettaMatsubara, NamiMånsson, Martin
By organisation
Materials and Nanophysics
Condensed Matter Physics

Search outside of DiVA

GoogleGoogle Scholar

doi
urn-nbn

Altmetric score

doi
urn-nbn
Total: 23 hits
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf