Browsing by Author "Huang, Q."

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    An itinerant antiferromagnetic metal without magnetic constituents
    (Nature Publishing Group, 2015) Svanidze, E.; Wang, Jiakui K.; Besara, T.; Liu, L.; Huang, Q.; Siegrist, T.; Frandsen, B.; Lynn, J.W.; Nevidomskyy, Andriy H.; Gamża, Monika B.; Aronson, M.C.; Uemura, Y.J.; Morosan, E.
    The origin of magnetism in metals has been traditionally discussed in two diametrically opposite limits: itinerant and local moments. Surprisingly, there are very few known examples of materials that are close to the itinerant limit, and their properties are not universally understood. In the case of the two such examples discovered several decades ago, the itinerant ferromagnets ZrZn2 and Sc3In, the understanding of their magnetic ground states draws on the existence of 3d electrons subject to strong spin fluctuations. Similarly, in Cr, an elemental itinerant antiferromagnet with a spin density wave ground state, its 3d electron character has been deemed crucial to it being magnetic. Here, we report evidence for an itinerant antiferromagnetic metal with no magnetic constituents: TiAu. Antiferromagnetic order occurs below a Néel temperature of 36 K, about an order of magnitude smaller than in Cr, rendering the spin fluctuations in TiAu more important at low temperatures. This itinerant antiferromagnet challenges the currently limited understanding of weak itinerant antiferromagnetism, while providing insights into the effects of spin fluctuations in itinerant–electron systems.
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    Anomalous Metamagnetism in the Low Carrier Density Kondo Lattice YbRh3Si7
    (American Physical Society, 2018) Rai, Binod K.; Chikara, S.; Ding, Xiaxin; Oswald, Iain W.H.; Schönemann, R.; Loganathan, V.; Hallas, A.M.; Cao, H.B.; Stavinoha, Macy; Chen, T.; Man, Haoran; Carr, Scott; Singleton, John; Zapf, Vivien; Benavides, Katherine A.; Chan, Julia Y.; Zhang, Q.R.; Rhodes, D.; Chiu, Y.C.; Balicas, Luis; Aczel, A.A.; Huang, Q.; Lynn, Jeffrey W.; Gaudet, J.; Sokolov, D.A.; Walker, H.C.; Adroja, D.T.; Dai, Pengcheng; Nevidomskyy, Andriy H.; Huang, C.-L.; Morosan, E.
    We report complex metamagnetic transitions in single crystals of the new low carrier Kondo antiferromagnet YbRh3Si7. Electrical transport, magnetization, and specific heat measurements reveal antiferromagnetic order at TN=7.5 K. Neutron diffraction measurements show that the magnetic ground state of YbRh3Si7 is a collinear antiferromagnet, where the moments are aligned in the ab plane. With such an ordered state, no metamagnetic transitions are expected when a magnetic field is applied along the c axis. It is therefore surprising that high-field magnetization, torque, and resistivity measurements with H∥c reveal two metamagnetic transitions at μ0H1=6.7 T and μ0H2=21 T. When the field is tilted away from the c axis, towards the ab plane, both metamagnetic transitions are shifted to higher fields. The first metamagnetic transition leads to an abrupt increase in the electrical resistivity, while the second transition is accompanied by a dramatic reduction in the electrical resistivity. Thus, the magnetic and electronic degrees of freedom in YbRh3Si7 are strongly coupled. We discuss the origin of the anomalous metamagnetism and conclude that it is related to competition between crystal electric-field anisotropy and anisotropic exchange interactions.
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    Band Jahn-Teller structural phase transition inﾠY2In
    (American Physical Society, 2018) Svanidze, E.; Georgen, C.; Hallas, A.M.; Huang, Q.; Santiago, J.M.; Lynn, J.W.; Morosan, E.
    The number of paramagnetic materials that undergo a structural phase transition is rather small, which can perhaps explain the limited understanding of the band Jahn-Teller mechanism responsible for this effect. Here we present a structural phase transition observed in paramagnetic Y2In at temperature T0=250±5 K. Below T0, the high-temperature hexagonal P63/mmc phase transforms into the low-temperature orthorhombic Pnma phase. This transition is accompanied by an unambiguous thermal hysteresis of about 10 K, observed in both magnetic susceptibility M/H(T) and resistivity ρ(T), indicating a first-order transition. Band structure calculations suggest a band Jahn-Teller mechanism, during which the degeneracy of electron bands close to the Fermi energy is broken. We establish that this structural phase transition does not have a magnetic component; however, the possibility of a charge density wave formation has not been eliminated.
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    Low-carrier density and fragile magnetism in a Kondo lattice system
    (American Physical Society, 2019) Rai, Binod K.; Oswald, Iain W.H.; Ban, Wenjing; Huang, C.-L.; Loganathan, V.; Hallas, A.M.; Wilson, M.N.; Luke, G.M.; Harriger, L.; Huang, Q.; Li, Y.; Dzsaber, Sami; Chan, Julia Y.; Wang, N.L.; Paschen, Silke; Lynn, J.W.; Nevidomskyy, Andriy H.; Dai, Pengcheng; Si, Q.; Morosan, E.; Rice Center for Quantum Materials
    Kondo-based semimetals and semiconductors are of extensive current interest as a viable platform for strongly correlated states in the dilute carrier limit. It is thus important to explore the routes to understand such systems. One established pathway is through the Kondo effect in metallic nonmagnetic analogs, in the so called half-filling case of one conduction electron and oneﾠ4fﾠelectron per site. Here, we demonstrate that Kondo-based semimetals develop out of conduction electrons with a low-carrier density in the presence of an even number of rare-earth sites. We do so by studying the Kondo materialﾠYb3Ir4Ge13ﾠalong with its closed-4f-shell counterpart,ﾠLu3Ir4Ge13. Through magnetotransport, optical conductivity, and thermodynamic measurements, we establish that the correlated semimetallic state ofﾠYb3Ir4Ge13ﾠbelow its Kondo temperature originates from the Kondo effect of a low-carrier conduction-electron background. In addition, it displays fragile magnetism at very low temperatures, which in turn, can be tuned to a Griffiths-phase-like regime through Lu-for-Yb substitution. These findings are connected with recent theoretical studies in simplified models. Our results can pave the way to exploring strong correlation physics in a semimetallic environment.
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    Structure and composition of the superconducting phase in alkali iron selenide KyFe1.6+xSe2
    (American Physical Society, 2014) Carr, Scott V.; Louca, Despina; Siewenie, Joan; Huang, Q.; Wang, Aifeng; Chen, Xianhui; Dai, Pengcheng
    We use neutron diffraction to study the temperature evolution of the average structure and local lattice distortions in insulating and superconducting potassium iron selenide KyFe1.6+xSe2. In the high temperature paramagnetic state, both materials have a single phase with a crystal structure similar to that of the BaFe2As2 family of iron pnictides. While the insulating KyFe1.6+xSe2 forms a √5×√5 iron vacancy ordered block antiferromagnetic (AF) structure at low temperature, the superconducting compounds spontaneously phase separate into an insulating part with √5×√5iron vacancy order and a superconducting phase with chemical composition of KzFe2Se2 and BaFe2As2 structure. Therefore, superconductivity in alkaline iron selenides arises from alkali deficient KzFe2Se2 in the matrix of the insulating block AF phase.