Spin freezing into a disordered state in CaFeTi2O6 synthesized under high pressure

作     者：X. Li W. M. Xu M. A. McGuire Y. Cho M. C. Downer Y. Wan X. Y. Li Z. Y. Li Q. Cui J.-G. Cheng J. B. Goodenough J.-S. Zhou 

作者机构：Materials Science and Engineering Program Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Texas at Austin Austin Texas 78712 USA School of Physics and Astronomy Tel Aviv University 69978 Tel Aviv Israel Materials Science and Technology Division Oak Ridge National Laboratory Oak Ridge Tennessee 37831 USA Department of Physics University of Texas at Austin Austin Texas 78712 USA Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics University of Oxford Oxford OX1 3NP United Kingdom Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and Institute of Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100190 China 

出 版 物：《Physical Review B》 (Phys. Rev. B)

年 卷 期：2018年第98卷第6期

页      面：064201-064201页

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基　　金：Office of Basic Energy Sciences Scientific User Facilities Division US Department of Energy Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ORNL 

主　　题：Magnetic interactions Magnetism Structural properties Thermal properties Transport phenomena 

摘      要：Double perovskites exhibit a variety of interesting phenomena due to numerous combinations of cation orderings and distortions. CaMnTi2O6 and CaFeTi2O6 are the only two discovered double perovskites that have the columnar type A-site ordering associated with the a+a+c− titling system. The former perovskite, synthesized recently, has a polar structure below Tc and shows an unusual ferroelectricity. The latter, while synthesized decades ago, received less investigation. Here, we have synthesized CaFeTi2O6 under high pressure and carried out thorough characterizations through measurements of x-ray powder diffraction (XRD), second harmonic generation (SHG), dc and ac magnetization, Mössbauer spectra, resistivity, thermoelectric power, and specific heat. Although the structural refinement of the XRD pattern cannot distinguish two possible tetragonal phases, SHG measurements help to rule out the possibility of a polar structure observed in CaMnTi2O6. Fitting the paramagnetic susceptibility to a Curie-Weiss law gives a negligible Weiss constant. The weak exchange interaction gives way to a dipole-dipole interaction and single-ion anisotropy. An anomaly at 1.2 K in the specific heat is too broad for a magnetic transition, but suggestive of a spin-ice-like state as in the pyrochlores. Mössbauer spectroscopy shows two distinct iron sites, as expected for the crystal structure. Both sites are occupied by high-spin Fe2+ as indicated by the isomer shift. The sharply different temperature dependence of the quadrupole splitting at the two iron sites can be well explained based on the local structural distortions from the refinement of XRD patterns. The line broadening associated with long spin-relaxation times is observed at 6 K as the spin freezing transition is approached from high temperatures.