High-field spin-flop state in green dioptase

Prokhnenko, O.; Marmorini, G.; Nikitin, S. E.; Yamamoto, D.; Gazizulina, A.; Bartkowiak, M.; Ponomaryov, A.N.; Zvyagin, S. A.; Nojiri, H.; Diáz-Ortega, I. F.; Anovitz, L. M.; Kolesnikov, A. I.; Podlesnyak, A.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.103.014427

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High-field spin-flop state in green dioptase

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Nikitin, S. E.
Physics of Quantum Materials, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Max Planck Society;

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Prokhnenko, O., Marmorini, G., Nikitin, S. E., Yamamoto, D., Gazizulina, A., Bartkowiak, M., et al. (2021). High-field spin-flop state in green dioptase. Physical Review B, 103(1): 014427, pp. 1-12. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.103.014427.

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The high-field magnetic properties and magnetic order of the gem mineral green dioptase Cu6[Si6O18]·6H2O have been studied by means of single-crystal neutron diffraction in magnetic fields up to 21 T and magnetization measurements up to 30 T. In zero field, the Cu2+ moments in the antiferromagnetic chains are oriented along the c axis with a small off-axis tilt. For a field applied parallel to the c axis, the magnetization shows a spin-flop-like transition at B∗=12.2 T at 1.5 K. Neutron diffraction experiments show a smooth behavior in the intensities of the magnetic reflections without any change in the periodicity of the magnetic structure. Bulk and microscopic observations are well described by a model of ferromagnetically coupled antiferromagnetic XXZ spin-12 chains, taking into account a change of the local easy-axis direction. We demonstrate that the magnetic structure evolves smoothly from a deformed Néel state at low fields to a deformed spin-flop state in a high field via a strong crossover around B∗. The results are generalized for different values of interchain coupling and spin anisotropy. © 2021 American Physical Society.