Interdependent scaling of long-range oxygen and magnetic ordering in non-stoichiometric Nd${}_2$NiO${}_{4.10}$

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العنوان: Interdependent scaling of long-range oxygen and magnetic ordering in non-stoichiometric Nd${}_2$NiO${}_{4.10}$
المؤلفون: Maity, Sumit Ranjan, Ceretti, Monica, Keller, Lukas, Schefer, Jürg, Meven, Martin, Pomjakushina, Ekaterina, Paulus, Werner
المصدر: Physical Review MATERIALS 5, 014401 (2021)
سنة النشر: 2021
المجموعة: Condensed Matter
Physics (Other)
مصطلحات موضوعية: Physics - Applied Physics, Condensed Matter - Disordered Systems and Neural Networks, Condensed Matter - Materials Science
الوصف: Hole doping in Nd${}_{2}$NiO${}_{4.00}$ can be either achieved by substituting the trivalent Nd atoms by bivalent alkaline earth metals or by oxygen doping, yielding Nd${}_{2}$NiO${}_{4+\delta}$. In this study, we investigated the interplay between oxygen and spin ordering for a low oxygen doping concentration i.e. Nd${}_{2}$NiO${}_{4.10}$. Although the extra oxygen doping level remains rather modest with only one out of 20 possible interstitial tetrahedral lattice sites occupied, we observed by single crystal neutron diffraction the presence of a complex 3D modulated structure related to oxygen ordering already at ambient, the modulation vectors being $\pm$2/13\textit{\textbf{a*}}$\pm$3/13\textit{\textbf{b*}}, $\pm$3/13\textit{\textbf{b*}}$\pm$2/13\textit{\textbf{b*}} and $\pm$1/5\textit{\textbf{a*}}$\pm$1/2\textit{\textbf{c*}} and satellite reflections up to fourth order. Temperature dependent neutron diffraction studies indicate the coexistence of oxygen and magnetic ordering below T${}_{N}$ $\simeq$ 48 K, the wave vector of the Ni sublattice being \textbf{\textit{k}}=(100). In addition, magnetic satellite reflections adapt exactly the same modulation vectors as found for the oxygen ordering, evidencing a unique coexistence of 3D modulated ordering for spin and oxygen ordering in Nd${}_{2}$NiO${}_{4.10}$. Temperature dependent measurements of magnetic intensities suggest two magnetic phase transitions below 48 K and 20 K, indicating two distinct onsets of magnetic ordering for the Ni and Nd sublattice, respectively.
Comment: 9 pages, 5 figures, supplemetary material linked in the paper
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.5.014401
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2101.04641
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2101.04641
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv
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DOI:10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.5.014401