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Synthesis, disorder and Ising anisotropy in a new spin liquid candidate PrMgAl11O19

Yantao Cao Huanpeng Bu Zhendong Fu Jinkui Zhao Jason S Gardner Zhongwen Ouyang Zhaoming Tian Zhiwei Li Hanjie Guo

Yantao Cao, Huanpeng Bu, Zhendong Fu, Jinkui Zhao, Jason S Gardner, Zhongwen Ouyang, Zhaoming Tian, Zhiwei Li, Hanjie Guo. Synthesis, disorder and Ising anisotropy in a new spin liquid candidate PrMgAl11O19[J]. Materials Futures, 2024, 3(3): 035201. doi: 10.1088/2752-5724/ad4a93
Citation: Yantao Cao, Huanpeng Bu, Zhendong Fu, Jinkui Zhao, Jason S Gardner, Zhongwen Ouyang, Zhaoming Tian, Zhiwei Li, Hanjie Guo. Synthesis, disorder and Ising anisotropy in a new spin liquid candidate PrMgAl11O19[J]. Materials Futures, 2024, 3(3): 035201. doi: 10.1088/2752-5724/ad4a93
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Synthesis, disorder and Ising anisotropy in a new spin liquid candidate PrMgAl11O19

doi: 10.1088/2752-5724/ad4a93
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  • Figure  1.  The crystal structure of PrMgAl11O19 extracted from single-crystal XRD refinement. Green—Pr; grey—Al; red—O; orange—Mg. The mirror plane including the disordered Pr ions is depicted in the right panel.

    Figure  2.  X-ray studies of PrMgAl11O19. (a) A Laue pattern with the x-ray beam approximately along the c axis. The inset shows a photo of the as-grown single crystal. (b)-(d) Precession images within the HK0, 0KL and H0L planes constructed from the single-crystal XRD measurements.

    Figure  3.  Temperature and field dependence of the dynamic susceptibility of PrMgAl11O19. (a) Temperature dependence of the magnetic susceptibility measured with the magnetic fields applied along the reciprocal a and c directions. (b) Temperature dependence of the inverse susceptibility, χc1(T). The red and blue curves are according to the CEF fit and Curie-Weiss fit, respectively. The inset highlights the low-temperature region. (c) Temperature dependence of the real component of the ac susceptibility, χc(T), measured at various frequencies. (d) Isothermal magnetization measured at various temperatures. The solid lines represent the magnetization calculated from the CEF parameters.

    Figure  4.  Heat capacity from hexaaluminate single crystals. (a) Cp/T versus T measured under various magnetic fields. The dashed line represents the phonon contribution obtained from the nonmagnetic counterpart LaMgAl11O19. (b) The magnetic specific heat is obtained by subtracting the phonon contributions (LaMgAl11O19) from the data of PrMgAl11O19. The red line represents a fit, Cm=ATα, to the zero field data in the temperature range between 0.2 and 2 K, with α = 1.91(1). (c) Representative change of the magnetic entropy in zero field. (d) Temperature dependence of the magnetic specific heat for NdMgAl11O19 together with a two-level Schottky fit. The inset shows the evolution of the gap as a function of the applied magnetic fields. A fit of Δ=gcμBH to the gap yields gc of 3.92.

    Table  1.   Experimental conditions for the single crystal XRD measurements, and agreement factors for the refinement.

    FormulaPrMgAl11O19
    Space groupP63/mmc (No. 194)
    a, b (Å)5.587 00(10)
    c (Å)21.8732(6)
    V (Å3)591.29(2)
    Z2
    2Θ (°)3.72 - 82.16
    No. of reflections, Rint125 34, 4.11%
    No. of independent reflections614
    No. of parameters48
    Index ranges-9 H 10,
    -10 K 10,
    -39 L 39
    R, wR2a1.69%, 4.60%
    Goodness of fit on F21.42
    Largest difference peak/hole (e/Å3)0.34/-0.38
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    Table  2.   Refined crystal structure parameters.

    Atomocc.xyz
    Pr1 (2d)0.928(10)1/32/30.75
    Pr2 (6 h)0.024(3)0.271(5)0.729(5)0.75
    Al1 (2a)1000
    Al2 (4f)11/32/30.189 98(4)
    Al3 (4f)0.51/32/30.472 75(4)
    Mg (4f)0.51/32/30.472 75(4)
    Al4 (12k)10.167 38(4)0.334 77(9)0.608 39(2)
    Al5 (4e)0.5000.2428(3)
    O1 (6 h)10.181 22(15)0.3624(3)0.25
    O2 (12k)10.152 14(11)0.3043(2)0.446 09(6)
    O3 (12k)1-0.0112(2)0.494 42(11)0.348 08(5)
    O4 (4f)11/32/30.558 37(10)
    O5 (4e)1000.348 18(9)
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  • 收稿日期:  2024-01-19
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