Magnetic versus nonmagnetic polymorphs of RuBr$_3$ under pressure

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Hauptverfasser: Shen, Bin, Ginga, Victoria A., Arévalo-López, Angel M., Garbarino, Gaston, Uykur, Ece, Goncalves-Faria, Marcos, Mukharjee, Prashanta K., Gegenwart, Philipp, Tsirlin, Alexander A.
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author Shen, Bin
Ginga, Victoria A.
Arévalo-López, Angel M.
Garbarino, Gaston
Uykur, Ece
Goncalves-Faria, Marcos
Mukharjee, Prashanta K.
Gegenwart, Philipp
Tsirlin, Alexander A.
author_facet Shen, Bin
Ginga, Victoria A.
Arévalo-López, Angel M.
Garbarino, Gaston
Uykur, Ece
Goncalves-Faria, Marcos
Mukharjee, Prashanta K.
Gegenwart, Philipp
Tsirlin, Alexander A.
contents Pressure evolution of the crystal structure and magnetism of the honeycomb $α$-RuBr$_3$ is studied using high-pressure x-ray diffraction, magnetometry, and density-functional band-structure calculations. Hydrostatic compression transforms antiferromagnetic $α$-RuBr$_3$ ($R\bar 3$) into paramagnetic $α'$-RuBr$_3$ ($P\bar 1$) where short Ru-Ru bonds cause magnetism collapse above 1.3 GPa at 0 K and 2.5 GPa at 295 K. Below this critical pressure, the Néel temperature of $α$-RuBr$_3$ increases with the slope of 1.8 K/GPa. Pressure tunes $α$-RuBr$_3$ away from the Kitaev limit, whereas increased third-neighbor in-plane coupling and interlayer coupling lead to a further stabilization of the collinear zigzag state. Both $α$- and $α'$-RuBr$_3$ are metastable at ambient pressure, but their transformation into the thermodynamically stable $β$-polymorph is kinetically hindered at room temperature.
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spellingShingle Magnetic versus nonmagnetic polymorphs of RuBr$_3$ under pressure
Shen, Bin
Ginga, Victoria A.
Arévalo-López, Angel M.
Garbarino, Gaston
Uykur, Ece
Goncalves-Faria, Marcos
Mukharjee, Prashanta K.
Gegenwart, Philipp
Tsirlin, Alexander A.
Strongly Correlated Electrons
Materials Science
Pressure evolution of the crystal structure and magnetism of the honeycomb $α$-RuBr$_3$ is studied using high-pressure x-ray diffraction, magnetometry, and density-functional band-structure calculations. Hydrostatic compression transforms antiferromagnetic $α$-RuBr$_3$ ($R\bar 3$) into paramagnetic $α'$-RuBr$_3$ ($P\bar 1$) where short Ru-Ru bonds cause magnetism collapse above 1.3 GPa at 0 K and 2.5 GPa at 295 K. Below this critical pressure, the Néel temperature of $α$-RuBr$_3$ increases with the slope of 1.8 K/GPa. Pressure tunes $α$-RuBr$_3$ away from the Kitaev limit, whereas increased third-neighbor in-plane coupling and interlayer coupling lead to a further stabilization of the collinear zigzag state. Both $α$- and $α'$-RuBr$_3$ are metastable at ambient pressure, but their transformation into the thermodynamically stable $β$-polymorph is kinetically hindered at room temperature.
title Magnetic versus nonmagnetic polymorphs of RuBr$_3$ under pressure
topic Strongly Correlated Electrons
Materials Science
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.17085