Magnetic field control of continuous Néel vector rotation and Néel temperature in a van der Waals antiferromagnet
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| author | Ni, Zhuoliang Seifert, Urban Haglund, Amanda V. Huang, Nan Mandrus, David G. Balents, Leon Wu, Liang |
| author_facet | Ni, Zhuoliang Seifert, Urban Haglund, Amanda V. Huang, Nan Mandrus, David G. Balents, Leon Wu, Liang |
| contents | In a collinear antiferromagnet, spins tend to cant towards the direction of an applied magnetic field, thereby decreasing the energy of the system. The canting angle becomes negligible when the magnetic field is small so that the induced anisotropic energy is substantially lower than the exchange energy. However, this tiny anisotropy can play a significant role when the intrinsic anisotropy of the antiferromagnet is small. In our work, we conduct direct imaging of the Néel vector in a two-dimensional easy-plane antiferromagnet, MnPSe$_3$, with negligible spin canting under an external in-plane magnetic field. The small inherent in-plane anisotropy allows for the continuous rotation of the Néel vector by ramping up the magnetic field in samples from the bulk to the monolayer. In monolayer samples, the applied magnetic field elevates the Néel temperature 10$\%$ at 5 tesla, as the combination of intrinsic and field-induced anisotropies set a critical temperature scale for fluctuations of the otherwise disordered Néel vector field. Our study illuminates the contribution of field-induced anisotropy in two dimensional magnets with in-plane anisotropy. We also demonstrate that the strain can tune the spin flop transition field strength by one order of magnitude. |
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| spellingShingle | Magnetic field control of continuous Néel vector rotation and Néel temperature in a van der Waals antiferromagnet Ni, Zhuoliang Seifert, Urban Haglund, Amanda V. Huang, Nan Mandrus, David G. Balents, Leon Wu, Liang Materials Science In a collinear antiferromagnet, spins tend to cant towards the direction of an applied magnetic field, thereby decreasing the energy of the system. The canting angle becomes negligible when the magnetic field is small so that the induced anisotropic energy is substantially lower than the exchange energy. However, this tiny anisotropy can play a significant role when the intrinsic anisotropy of the antiferromagnet is small. In our work, we conduct direct imaging of the Néel vector in a two-dimensional easy-plane antiferromagnet, MnPSe$_3$, with negligible spin canting under an external in-plane magnetic field. The small inherent in-plane anisotropy allows for the continuous rotation of the Néel vector by ramping up the magnetic field in samples from the bulk to the monolayer. In monolayer samples, the applied magnetic field elevates the Néel temperature 10$\%$ at 5 tesla, as the combination of intrinsic and field-induced anisotropies set a critical temperature scale for fluctuations of the otherwise disordered Néel vector field. Our study illuminates the contribution of field-induced anisotropy in two dimensional magnets with in-plane anisotropy. We also demonstrate that the strain can tune the spin flop transition field strength by one order of magnitude. |
| title | Magnetic field control of continuous Néel vector rotation and Néel temperature in a van der Waals antiferromagnet |
| topic | Materials Science |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.06010 |