Magnetic nanopantograph in the SrCu[subscript 2](BO[subscript 3])[subscript 2] Shastry-Sutherland lattice
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Radtke, Guillaume
Dabkowska, Hanna A.
Salamon, Myron B.
Jaime, Marcelo
Saul, Alberto Andres
Date Issued
February 2015
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
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Radtke, Guillaume, Andres Saul, Hanna A. Dabkowska, Myron B. Salamon, and Marcelo Jaime. “Magnetic Nanopantograph in the SrCu[subscript 2](BO[subscript 3])[subscript 2] Shastry–Sutherland Lattice.” Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 112, no. 7 (February 2, 2015): 1971–1976.
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Abstract
Magnetic 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, SrCu[subscript 2](BO[subscript 3])[subscript 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 [^ over CuOCu] superexchange angle that, due to the orthogonal Cu[superscript 2+] 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.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1421414112
