Motivated by the rich interplay among electronic correlation, spin-orbit coupling (SOC), crystal-field splitting, and geometric frustrations in the honeycomblike lattice, we systematically investigated the electronic and magnetic properties of Li 2 RhO 3 . The material is semiconducting with a narrow band gap of ∼ 78 meV, and its temperature dependence of resistivity conforms to a three-dimensional variable range hopping mechanism. No long-range magnetic ordering was found down to 0.5 K, due to the geometric frustrations. Instead, single atomic spin-glass behavior below the spin-freezing temperature (∼6 K) was observed and its spin dynamics obeys the universal critical slowing down scaling law. A first-principles calculation suggested it to be a relativistic Mott insulator mediated by both electronic correlation and SOC. With moderate strength of electronic correlation and SOC, our results shed light on the research of the Heisenberg-Kitaev model in realistic materials.
A millimeter-sized ThCr 2 Si 2 -type CeNi 2 As 2 single crystal was synthesized by the NaAs flux method and its physical properties were investigated by magnetization, transport, and specific-heat measurements. In contrast to the previously reported CaBe 2 Ge 2 -type CeNi 2 As 2 , the ThCr 2 Si 2 -type CeNi 2 As 2 is a highly anisotropic uniaxial antiferromagnet with the transition temperature T N = 4.8 K. A magnetic-field-induced spin-flop transition was seen below T N when the applied B is parallel to the c axis, the magnetic easy axis, together with a huge frustration parameter f = θ W /T N . A pronounced Schottky-type anomaly in specific heat was also found around 160 K, which could be attributed to the crystalline electric field effect with the excitation energies being fitted to 1 = 325 K and 2 = 520 K, respectively. Moreover, the in-plane resistivity anisotropy and low-temperature x-ray diffractions suggest that this compound is a rare example exhibiting a possible structure distortion induced by the 4f -electron magnetic frustration.
Here we report the synthesis of a bulk oxide diluted magnetic semiconductor (DMS) system La 1−x Sr x Cu 0.925 Mn 0.075 SO (x = 0, 0.025, 0.05, 0.075 and 0.1). As a wide band gap p-type oxide semiconductor, LaCuSO satisfies all the conditions forecasted theoretically to be a room temperature DMS. The Curie temperature (T C ) is around 200 K as x ≥ 0.05, which is among the highest T C record of known bulk DMS materials up to now. The system provides a rare example of oxide DMS system with p-type conduction, which is important for formation of high temperature spintronic devices.
Two distinct superconducting (SC) domes were discovered in the phase diagram of P-doped iron pnictide superconductors LaFeAs1−xPxO with x ranging from 0 to 1. The first SC dome is centered around x = 0.3 and then disappears as P content increases to x = 0.5. For x > 0.5, a second SC dome appears, and Tc reaches another maximum at x = 0.7. Although the maximum of Tc in the two domes is close to each other, the estimated upper critical field (Hc2) is much larger in the first SC dome, implying a difference in the nature between the two SC domes. Further band calculations and thermopower measurements suggest that there could be a Lifshitz transition in the electronic structure between the two SC domes.
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