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Magnetostriction-Driven Muon Localization in an Antiferromagnetic Oxide
| العنوان: | Magnetostriction-Driven Muon Localization in an Antiferromagnetic Oxide |
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| المؤلفون: | Bonfà, Pietro, Onuorah, Ifeanyi John, Lang, Franz, Timrov, Iurii, Monacelli, Lorenzo, Wang, Chennan, Sun, Xiao, Petracic, Oleg, Pizzi, Giovanni, Marzari, Nicola, Blundell, Stephen J., De Renzi, Roberto |
| المصدر: | Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 046701 (2024) |
| سنة النشر: | 2023 |
| المجموعة: | Condensed Matter |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Condensed Matter - Strongly Correlated Electrons, Condensed Matter - Materials Science |
| الوصف: | Magnetostriction drives a rhombohedral distortion in the cubic rock salt antiferromagnet MnO at the N\'eel temperature $T_{N}=118$ K. As an unexpected consequence we show that this distortion acts to localize the site of an implanted muon due to the accompanying redistribution of electron density. This lifts the degeneracy between equivalent sites, resulting in a single observed muon precession frequency. Above $T_{N}$, the muon instead becomes delocalized around a network of equivalent sites. Our first-principles simulations based on Hubbard-corrected density-functional theory and molecular dynamics are consistent with our experimental data and help to resolve a long-standing puzzle regarding muon data on MnO, as well as having wider applicability to other magnetic oxides. Comment: 7 pages, 3 figures |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Working Paper |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.046701 |
| URL الوصول: | http://arxiv.org/abs/2305.12237 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsarx.2305.12237 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | arXiv |
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