Magnetic ordering and spin dynamics in the S= 52 staggered triangular lattice antiferromagnet Ba2MnTe O6

Lisi Li, Narendirakumar Narayanan, Shangjian Jin, Jia Yu, Zengjia Liu, Hualei Sun, Chin Wei Wang, Vanessa K. Peterson, Yun Liu, Sergey Danilkin, Dao Xin Yao, Dehong Yu, Meng Wang*

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    Abstract

    We report studies of the magnetic properties of a staggered stacked triangular lattice Ba2MnTeO6 using magnetic susceptibility, specific heat, neutron powder diffraction, inelastic neutron scattering measurements, and first-principles density functional theory calculations. Neutron diffraction measurements reveal Ba2MnTeO6 to be antiferromagnetically ordered with a propagation vector k=(0.5,0.5,0) and Neél transition temperature of TN≈20 K. The dominant interaction derived from the Curie-Weiss fitting to the inverse DC susceptibility is antiferromagnetic. Modeling of the inelastic neutron scattering data with linear spin wave theory yielded magnetic exchange interactions for the nearest intralayer, nearest interlayer, and next-nearest interlayer of J1=0.27(3), meV J2=0.27(3) meV, and J3=-0.05(1) meV, respectively, and a small value of easy-axis anisotropy of Dzz=-0.01 meV. We derive a magnetic phase diagram that reveals a collinear stripe-type antiferromagnetic order that is stabilized by the competition between J1,J2, and J3.

    Original languageEnglish
    Article number094413
    JournalPhysical Review B
    Volume102
    Issue number9
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 1 Sept 2020

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