Frustrated Ising chains on the triangular lattice in Sr$_3$NiIrO$_6$

S. Toth; W. Wu; D. T. Adroja; S. Rayaprol; E. V. Sampathkumaran

doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.93.174422

Frustrated Ising chains on the triangular lattice in Sr$_3$NiIrO$_6$

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2016-06-01 v1

Authors: S. Toth , W. Wu , D. T. Adroja , S. Rayaprol , E. V. Sampathkumaran

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Abstract

Inelastic neutron scattering study on the spin-chain compound Sr $_3$ NiIrO $_6$ reveals gapped quasi-1D magnetic excitations. The observed one-magnon band between 29.5 and 39 meV consists of magnon modes of the Ni $^{2+}$ ions. The fitting of the spin wave spectrum reveals strongly coupled Ising-like chains along the $c$ -axis that are weakly coupled into a frustrated triangular lattice in the $ab$ -plane. The magnetic excitations survive up to 200 K well above the magnetic ordering temperature of $T_N \sim 75$ K, also indicating a quasi-1D nature of the magnetic interactions in Sr $_3$ NiIrO $_6$ . Our microscopic model is in good agreement with ab initio electronic structure calculations and explains the giant spin flip field observed in bulk magnetization measurements.

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spin excitations in condensed matter frustrated magnetism magnetic materials and spin systems

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@article{arxiv.1604.06569,
  title  = {Frustrated Ising chains on the triangular lattice in Sr$_3$NiIrO$_6$},
  author = {S. Toth and W. Wu and D. T. Adroja and S. Rayaprol and E. V. Sampathkumaran},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1604.06569},
  year   = {2016}
}

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Frustrated Ising chains on the triangular lattice in Sr$_3$NiIrO$_6$

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