Pressure tuning of competing interactions on a honeycomb lattice
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| author | Sakrikar, Piyush Shen, Bin Poldi, Eduardo H. T. Bahrami, Faranak Hu, Xiaodong Kenney, Eric M. Wang, Qiaochu Fruhling, Kyle W. Wang, Chennan Gupta, Ritu Khasanov, Rustem Luetkens, Hubertus Calder, Stuart A. Aczel, Adam A. Fabbris, Gilberto Hemley, Russell J. Plumb, Kemp W. Ran, Ying Gegenwart, Philipp Tsirlin, Alexander A. Haskel, Daniel Graf, Michael J. Tafti, Fazel |
| author_facet | Sakrikar, Piyush Shen, Bin Poldi, Eduardo H. T. Bahrami, Faranak Hu, Xiaodong Kenney, Eric M. Wang, Qiaochu Fruhling, Kyle W. Wang, Chennan Gupta, Ritu Khasanov, Rustem Luetkens, Hubertus Calder, Stuart A. Aczel, Adam A. Fabbris, Gilberto Hemley, Russell J. Plumb, Kemp W. Ran, Ying Gegenwart, Philipp Tsirlin, Alexander A. Haskel, Daniel Graf, Michael J. Tafti, Fazel |
| contents | Magnetic exchange interactions are mediated via orbital overlaps across chemical bonds. Thus, modifying the bond angles by physical pressure or strain can tune the relative strength of competing interactions. Here we present a remarkable case of such tuning between the Heisenberg (J) and Kitaev (K) exchange, which respectively establish magnetically ordered and spin liquid phases on a honeycomb lattice. We observe a rapid suppression of the Neel temperature (TN) with pressure in Ag3LiRh2O6, a spin-1/2 honeycomb lattice with both J and K couplings. Using a combined analysis of x-ray data and first-principles calculations, we find that pressure modifies the bond angles in a way that increases the |K/J| ratio and thereby suppresses TN. Consistent with this picture, we observe a spontaneous onset of muon spin relaxation (muSR) oscillations below TN at low pressure, whereas in the high-pressure phase, oscillations appear only when T < TN/2. Unlike other candidate Kitaev materials, Ag3LiRh2O6 is tuned toward a quantum critical point by pressure while avoiding a structural dimerization in the relevant pressure range. |
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| spellingShingle | Pressure tuning of competing interactions on a honeycomb lattice Sakrikar, Piyush Shen, Bin Poldi, Eduardo H. T. Bahrami, Faranak Hu, Xiaodong Kenney, Eric M. Wang, Qiaochu Fruhling, Kyle W. Wang, Chennan Gupta, Ritu Khasanov, Rustem Luetkens, Hubertus Calder, Stuart A. Aczel, Adam A. Fabbris, Gilberto Hemley, Russell J. Plumb, Kemp W. Ran, Ying Gegenwart, Philipp Tsirlin, Alexander A. Haskel, Daniel Graf, Michael J. Tafti, Fazel Strongly Correlated Electrons Materials Science Magnetic exchange interactions are mediated via orbital overlaps across chemical bonds. Thus, modifying the bond angles by physical pressure or strain can tune the relative strength of competing interactions. Here we present a remarkable case of such tuning between the Heisenberg (J) and Kitaev (K) exchange, which respectively establish magnetically ordered and spin liquid phases on a honeycomb lattice. We observe a rapid suppression of the Neel temperature (TN) with pressure in Ag3LiRh2O6, a spin-1/2 honeycomb lattice with both J and K couplings. Using a combined analysis of x-ray data and first-principles calculations, we find that pressure modifies the bond angles in a way that increases the |K/J| ratio and thereby suppresses TN. Consistent with this picture, we observe a spontaneous onset of muon spin relaxation (muSR) oscillations below TN at low pressure, whereas in the high-pressure phase, oscillations appear only when T < TN/2. Unlike other candidate Kitaev materials, Ag3LiRh2O6 is tuned toward a quantum critical point by pressure while avoiding a structural dimerization in the relevant pressure range. |
| title | Pressure tuning of competing interactions on a honeycomb lattice |
| topic | Strongly Correlated Electrons Materials Science |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.18016 |