Annealing-tunable charge density wave in the kagome antiferromagnet FeGe
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| author | Wu, Xueliang Mi, Xinrun Zhang, Long Wang, Chin-Wei Maraytta, Nour Zhou, Xiaoyuan He, Mingquan Merz, Michael Chai, Yisheng Wang, Aifeng |
| author_facet | Wu, Xueliang Mi, Xinrun Zhang, Long Wang, Chin-Wei Maraytta, Nour Zhou, Xiaoyuan He, Mingquan Merz, Michael Chai, Yisheng Wang, Aifeng |
| contents | The unprecedented phenomenon that a charge density wave (CDW) emerges inside the antiferromagnetic (AFM) phase indicates an unusual CDW mechanism associated with magnetism in FeGe. Here, we demonstrate that both the CDW and magnetism of FeGe can be effectively tuned through post-growth annealing treatments. Instead of the short-range CDW reported earlier, a long-range CDW order is realized below 110 K in single crystals annealed at \SI{320}{\degreeCelsius} for over 48 h. The CDW and AFM transition temperatures appear to be inversely correlated with each other. The entrance of the CDW phase significantly reduces the critical field of the spin-flop transition, whereas the CDW transition remains stable against minor variations in magnetic orders such as annealing-induced magnetic clusters and spin-canting transitions. Single-crystal x-ray diffraction measurements reveal substantial disorder on the Ge1 site, which is characterized by displacement of the Ge1 atom from Fe$_3$Ge layer along the $c$ axis and can be reversibly modified by the annealing process. The observed annealing-tunable CDW and magnetic orders can be well understood in terms of disorder on the Ge1 site. Our study provides a vital starting point for the exploration of the unconventional CDW mechanism in FeGe and of kagome materials in general. |
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| spellingShingle | Annealing-tunable charge density wave in the kagome antiferromagnet FeGe Wu, Xueliang Mi, Xinrun Zhang, Long Wang, Chin-Wei Maraytta, Nour Zhou, Xiaoyuan He, Mingquan Merz, Michael Chai, Yisheng Wang, Aifeng Strongly Correlated Electrons Materials Science The unprecedented phenomenon that a charge density wave (CDW) emerges inside the antiferromagnetic (AFM) phase indicates an unusual CDW mechanism associated with magnetism in FeGe. Here, we demonstrate that both the CDW and magnetism of FeGe can be effectively tuned through post-growth annealing treatments. Instead of the short-range CDW reported earlier, a long-range CDW order is realized below 110 K in single crystals annealed at \SI{320}{\degreeCelsius} for over 48 h. The CDW and AFM transition temperatures appear to be inversely correlated with each other. The entrance of the CDW phase significantly reduces the critical field of the spin-flop transition, whereas the CDW transition remains stable against minor variations in magnetic orders such as annealing-induced magnetic clusters and spin-canting transitions. Single-crystal x-ray diffraction measurements reveal substantial disorder on the Ge1 site, which is characterized by displacement of the Ge1 atom from Fe$_3$Ge layer along the $c$ axis and can be reversibly modified by the annealing process. The observed annealing-tunable CDW and magnetic orders can be well understood in terms of disorder on the Ge1 site. Our study provides a vital starting point for the exploration of the unconventional CDW mechanism in FeGe and of kagome materials in general. |
| title | Annealing-tunable charge density wave in the kagome antiferromagnet FeGe |
| topic | Strongly Correlated Electrons Materials Science |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.01291 |