Field-induced magnetic transitions and strong anisotropy in α-CoV2O6 single crystal

The Ising-like antiferromagnet α-CoV2O6 has received considerable interests because of stabilized 1/3 magnetization plateau around 5 K under magnetic field applied along magnetic easy c-axis. In this work, this magnetization plateau was studied by varying temperature or rotating magnetic field. As temperature decreased, this stabilized plateau collapsed, and additional magnetic transitions were observed. As a result, a rich magnetic phase diagram was constructed and extended to temperature lower than previously reported. When magnetic field moved from the c to b (or a) axis, the magnetization plateau developed with field directions and vanished finally when the field was restricted in the ab plane. An impressive observation is that this 1/3-plateau can be stabilized and remain robust even when magnetic field deviated from the c axis, accompanied by the evolutions of the magnetic moments and the critical transition fields. We suppose that the origins of these temperature and angular dependences of the 1/3 magnetization plateau are related to strong spin-orbital coupling. Indeed, electron spin resonance (ESR) measurement gives large Landé factor of 8.9, evidencing that there exists strong spin-orbital coupling.

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E-Artikel

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2019

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2019

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:31

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Journal of physics. Condensed matter : an Institute of Physics journal - 31(2019), 37 vom: 18. Sept., Seite 375802

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Englisch

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Liu, C B [VerfasserIn]
He, Z Z [VerfasserIn]
Wang, S L [VerfasserIn]
Yang, M [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Y [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Y J [VerfasserIn]
Chen, R [VerfasserIn]
Zhu, H P [VerfasserIn]
Dong, C [VerfasserIn]
Ke, J Z [VerfasserIn]
Ouyang, Z W [VerfasserIn]
Xia, Z C [VerfasserIn]
Wang, J F [VerfasserIn]

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Date Revised 23.07.2019

published: Print-Electronic

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10.1088/1361-648X/ab26fe

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NLM297808044