Magnetic Nanopantograph in the SrCu₂(BO₃)₂ Shastry-Sutherland Lattice

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dc.contributor.authorRadtke, Guillaumeen_US
dc.contributor.authorSaúl, Andrésen_US
dc.contributor.authorDabkowska, Hanna A.en_US
dc.contributor.authorSalamon, Myron B.en_US
dc.contributor.authorJaime, Marceloen_US
dc.contributor.utdAuthorSalamon, Myron B.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-03-27T20:59:50Z
dc.date.available2015-03-27T20:59:50Z
dc.date.created2015-02-02en_US
dc.date.issued2015-02-02en_US
dc.descriptionIncludes supporting informationen_US
dc.description.abstractMagnetic materials having competing, i.e., frustrated, interactions can display magnetism prolific in intricate structures, discrete jumps, plateaus, and exotic spin states with increasing applied magnetic fields. When the associated elastic energy cost is not too expensive, this high potential can be enhanced by the existence of an omnipresent magnetoelastic coupling. Here we report experimental and theoretical evidence of a nonnegligible magnetoelastic coupling in one of these fascinating materials, SrCu₂(BO₃)₂ (SCBO). First, using pulsed-field transversal and longitudinal magnetostriction measurements we show that its physical dimensions, indeed, mimic closely its unusually rich field-induced magnetism. Second, using density functional-based calculations we find that the driving force behind the magnetoelastic coupling is the CuOCu superexchange angle that, due to the orthogonal Cu²⁺ dimers acting as pantographs, can shrink significantly (0.44%) with minute (0.01%) variations in the lattice parameters. With this original approach we also find a reduction of ~10% in the intradimer exchange integral J, enough to make predictions for the highly magnetized states and the effects of applied pressure on SCBO.en_US
dc.description.sponsorship"M.J. acknowledges useful discussions with Prof. B. D. Gaulin, McMaster University and Cristian D. Batista, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). The National High Magnetic Field Laboratory Pulsed-Field Facility is supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the US Department of Energy (DOE), and the State of Florida through NSF Cooperative Grant DMR-1157490. Work at LANL was supported by the US DOE Basic Energy Science project “Science at 100 Tesla.” This work was granted access to the High Performance Computing resources of Institut du Développement et des Ressources en Informatique Scientique under the allocations 2014-100384 made by Grand Equipement National de Calcul Intensif."en_US
dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationRadtke, Guillaume, Andrés Saúl, Hanna A. Dabkowska, Myron B. Salamon, et al. 2015. "Magnetic nanopantograph in the SrCu₂(BO₃)₂ Shastry-Sutherland lattice." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 112(7): doi:10.1073/pnas.1421414112.en_US
dc.identifier.issn1091-6490en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10735.1/4388
dc.publisherNational Academy of Sciencesen_US
dc.relation.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1421414112
dc.rights©2015 PNASen_US
dc.sourceProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
dc.subjectMagnetostrictionen_US
dc.subjectDensity functionalsen_US
dc.subjectElasticityen_US
dc.subjectShastry Sutherland latticeen_US
dc.subjectMagnetic fieldsen_US
dc.titleMagnetic Nanopantograph in the SrCu₂(BO₃)₂ Shastry-Sutherland Latticeen_US
dc.type.genreArticleen_US

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