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Magnetic phase diagram of the quantum spin chain compound SrCo2V2O8 : A single-crystal neutron diffraction study

Shen, L. LU ; Zaharko, O. ; Birk, Jonas Okkels ; Jellyman, E. ; He, Z. and Blackburn, E. LU (2019) In New Journal of Physics 21(7).
Abstract

We explore magnetic order in the quantum spin chain compound SrCo2V2O8 up to 14.9 T and down to 50 mK, using single-crystal neutron diffraction. Upon cooling in zero-field, commensurate antiferromagnetic (C-AFM) order with modulation vector=(0, 0, 1) develops below T N≃5.0K. Applying an external magnetic field (H∥c axis) destabilizes this C-AFM order, leading to an order-disorder transition between T N and ∼1.5 K. Below 1.5 K, a commensurate to incommensurate (IC-AFM) transition occurs at 3.9 T, above which the magnetic reflections can be indexed by=(0, 0, 1 ±δl). The incommensurability δl scales monotonically with H until the IC-AFM order disappears around 7.0 T. Magnetic... (More)

We explore magnetic order in the quantum spin chain compound SrCo2V2O8 up to 14.9 T and down to 50 mK, using single-crystal neutron diffraction. Upon cooling in zero-field, commensurate antiferromagnetic (C-AFM) order with modulation vector=(0, 0, 1) develops below T N≃5.0K. Applying an external magnetic field (H∥c axis) destabilizes this C-AFM order, leading to an order-disorder transition between T N and ∼1.5 K. Below 1.5 K, a commensurate to incommensurate (IC-AFM) transition occurs at 3.9 T, above which the magnetic reflections can be indexed by=(0, 0, 1 ±δl). The incommensurability δl scales monotonically with H until the IC-AFM order disappears around 7.0 T. Magnetic reflections modulated by emerge again at higher fields. While the characters of the C-AFM, IC-AFM and the emergent AFM order in SrCo2V2O8 appear to fit the descriptions of the Néel, longitudinal spin density wave and transverse AFM order observed in the related compound BaCo2V2O8, our results also reveal several unique signatures that are not present in the latter, highlighting the inadequacy of mean-field theory in addressing the complex magnetic order in systems of this class.

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Low dimensional quantum magnetism, Magnetic-field-induced phase transitions, Quantum criticality
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New Journal of Physics
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21
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7
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073014
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IOP Publishing
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1367-2630
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10.1088/1367-2630/ab2b7a
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Accessing high pressure and low temperature states of exotic magnetism
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English
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  author       = {{Shen, L. and Zaharko, O. and Birk, Jonas Okkels and Jellyman, E. and He, Z. and Blackburn, E.}},
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  keywords     = {{Low dimensional quantum magnetism; Magnetic-field-induced phase transitions; Quantum criticality}},
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  series       = {{New Journal of Physics}},
  title        = {{Magnetic phase diagram of the quantum spin chain compound SrCo<sub>2</sub>V<sub>2</sub>O<sub>8</sub> : A single-crystal neutron diffraction study}},
  url          = {{https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/files/70270058/Shen2019_SZBJ.pdf}},
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