English

Magnetic phase diagram of La$_{2-x}$Sr$_{x}$CoO$_{4}$ revised using muon-spin relaxation

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2016-08-07 v1

Abstract

We report the results of a muon-spin relaxation (μ\muSR) investigation of La2x_{2-x}Srx_{x}CoO4_{4}, an antiferromagnetic insulating series which has been shown to support charge ordered and magnetic stripe phases and an hourglass magnetic excitation spectrum. We present a revised magnetic phase diagram, which shows that the suppression of the magnetic ordering temperature is highly sensitive to small concentrations of holes. Distinct behavior within an intermediate xx range (0.2x0.60.2 \leq x \lesssim 0.6) suggests that the putative stripe ordered phase extends to lower xx than previously thought. Further charge doping (0.67x0.90.67 \leq x \leq 0.9) prevents magnetic ordering for T1.5 KT \gtrsim 1.5~{\rm K}

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.1510.06244,
  title  = {Magnetic phase diagram of La$_{2-x}$Sr$_{x}$CoO$_{4}$ revised using muon-spin relaxation},
  author = {R. C. Williams and F. Xiao and T. Lancaster and R. De Renzi and G. Allodi and S. Bordignon and P. G. Freeman and F. L. Pratt and S. R. Giblin and J. S. Möller and S. J. Blundell and A. T. Boothroyd and D. Prabhakaran},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.06244},
  year   = {2016}
}