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T1 - Peculiar crystal structure and long-range order of spin-1/2 ladders in MoOBr3
AU - Vorobyova, Anna A.
AU - Komleva, E.
AU - Geidorf, M.
AU - Zaikina, A. Yu
AU - Vasilchikova, T.
AU - Zakharov, K.
AU - Shilov, Andrey I.
AU - Simonov, S.
AU - Ovchenkov, Yevgeniy A.
AU - Morozov, I.
AU - Shvanskaya, L.
AU - Streltsov, S.
AU - Vasiliev, A.
AU - Volkova, O.
N1 - LVS and OSV acknowledge the support by the Megagrant program of the Government of Russian Federation through the project 075-15-2021-604 for thermodynamic property measurements. AAV acknowledges support by RSF grant 22-72-10034 for the synthesis, TMV acknowledges support by RSF grant 22-42-08002 for X-band ESR measurements and dielectric constant. IVM acknowledges support by RSF grant 22-43-02020 for X-Ray diffraction study. EVK and SVSt thank the Russian Ministry of Science and High Education (project ‘‘Quantum’’ No. 122021000038-7) and RSF grant 23-12-00159 for the first principles calculations. Rigaku SmartLab SE diffractometer of the shared facility center of ISSP RAS has been used.
PY - 2023/12/1
Y1 - 2023/12/1
N2 - Tetragonal crystal structure of molybdenum oxytribromide, MoOBr3, consists of non-planar Mo2Br6 units joined by non-equidistant Mo-O-Mo bonds into infinite ladders, which are connected to each other by the van der Waals forces. Within unit cell, the apical Mo atoms in any given ladder are shifted along the c axis either above (+z) or below (−z) the basal ab plane of the Br atoms. Magnetic susceptibility taken at various frequencies χac(T) and magnetic fields χdc(T) as well as specific heat Cp(T) data evidence the formation of a long-range antiferromagnetic order at TN = 34 ± 1 K with largely reduced effective magnetic moments µeff = 1.3 ± 0.1 µB. First principles GGA+U calculations point to the predominance of intra-ladder ferromagnetic exchange interaction on both rungs Jrung = − 10 meV and legs Jleg = − 1 meV of the ladder, while much weaker inter-ladder antiferromagnetic exchange interaction Jinter = 0.2 meV couples the ladders. The anisotropic part of the exchange K = 0.6 meV in combination with Jinter allows estimating the spin-flop transition field µ0Hspin-flop ∼ 6 T in good correspondence with the magnetization M(H) data.
AB - Tetragonal crystal structure of molybdenum oxytribromide, MoOBr3, consists of non-planar Mo2Br6 units joined by non-equidistant Mo-O-Mo bonds into infinite ladders, which are connected to each other by the van der Waals forces. Within unit cell, the apical Mo atoms in any given ladder are shifted along the c axis either above (+z) or below (−z) the basal ab plane of the Br atoms. Magnetic susceptibility taken at various frequencies χac(T) and magnetic fields χdc(T) as well as specific heat Cp(T) data evidence the formation of a long-range antiferromagnetic order at TN = 34 ± 1 K with largely reduced effective magnetic moments µeff = 1.3 ± 0.1 µB. First principles GGA+U calculations point to the predominance of intra-ladder ferromagnetic exchange interaction on both rungs Jrung = − 10 meV and legs Jleg = − 1 meV of the ladder, while much weaker inter-ladder antiferromagnetic exchange interaction Jinter = 0.2 meV couples the ladders. The anisotropic part of the exchange K = 0.6 meV in combination with Jinter allows estimating the spin-flop transition field µ0Hspin-flop ∼ 6 T in good correspondence with the magnetization M(H) data.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jallcom.2023.172072
DO - 10.1016/j.jallcom.2023.172072
M3 - Article
VL - 968
JO - Journal of Alloys and Compounds
JF - Journal of Alloys and Compounds
SN - 0925-8388
M1 - 172072
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