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Emergent 1/3 magnetization plateaus in pyroxene CoGeO3

H. Guo1,2, L. Zhao1, M. Baenitz1, X. Fabrèges3, A. Gukasov3, A. Melendez Sans1, D. I. Khomskii4, L. H. Tjeng1, and A. C. Komarek1,*

  • 1Max-Planck-Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Nöthnitzer Strasse 40, D-01187 Dresden, Germany
  • 2Neutron Science Platform, Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory, Dongguan, Guangdong 523808, China
  • 3Laboratoire Léon Brillouin, CEA-CNRS, CE-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
  • 4Physics Institute II, University of Cologne, Zülpicher Strasse 77, D-50937 Cologne, Germany

  • *Komarek@cpfs.mpg.de
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Phys. Rev. Research 3, L032037 – Published 11 August, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.3.L032037

Abstract

Despite the absence of an apparent triangular pattern in the crystal structure, we observe unusually well-pronounced 1/3 magnetization plateaus in the quasi-one-dimensional Ising spin chain compound CoGeO3 which belongs to the class of pyroxene minerals. We succeeded in uncovering the detailed microscopic spin structure of the 1/3 magnetization plateau phase by means of neutron diffraction. We observed changes of the initial antiferromagnetic zero-field spin structure that resemble a regular formation of antiferromagnetic “domain wall boundaries,” resulting in a kind of modulated magnetic structure with a 1/3-integer propagation vector. The net ferromagnetic moment emerges at these “domain walls” whereas two thirds of all antiferromagnetic chain alignments can be still preserved. We propose a microscopic model on the basis of an anisotropic frustrated square lattice to explain the observations.

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Phys. Rev. Research 3, L032037– Published 11 August, 2021
  • Received 2 April 2021
  • Revised 28 June 2021
  • Accepted 19 July 2021
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