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Coupled spin-charge order in frustrated itinerant triangular magnets

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2015-06-23 v1

Abstract

We uncover four new spin-charge ordered ground states in the strong coupling limit of the Kondo lattice model on triangular geometry. Two of the states at one-third electronic filling (n=1/3n=1/3) consist of decorated ferromagnetic chains coupled antiferromagnetically with the neighboring chains. The third magnetic ground state is noncollinear, consisting of antiferromagnetic chains separated by a pair of canted ferromagnetic chains. An even more unusual magnetic ground state, a variant of the 120120^{\circ} Yafet-Kittel phase, is discovered at n=2/3n=2/3. These magnetic orders are stabilized by opening a gap in the electronic spectrum: a "band effect". All the phases support modulations in the electronic charge density due to the presence of magnetically inequivalent sites. In particular, the charge ordering pattern found at n=2/3n=2/3 is observed in various triangular lattice systems, such as, 2H-AgNiO2_2, 3R-AgNiO2_2 and Nax_xCoO2_2.

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@article{arxiv.1412.2319,
  title  = {Coupled spin-charge order in frustrated itinerant triangular magnets},
  author = {Sahinur Reja and Rajyavardhan Ray and Jeroen van den Brink and Sanjeev Kumar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.2319},
  year   = {2015}
}

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5 pages, 4 figures

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