Title
Magnetic properties of Ni5Sn(O2BO3)2 ludwigite
Date Issued
24 February 2021
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Sadrollahi E.
Da Fonseca R.G.M.
Passamani E.C.
Freitas D.C.
Continentino M.A.
Sanchez D.R.
Litterst F.J.
Baggio-Saitovitch E.
Universidad Federal Fluminense
Publisher(s)
American Physical Society
Abstract
The magnetic properties of site-disordered Ni5Sn(O2BO3)2 ludwigite have carefully been studied using local probes and bulk experimental methods in temperatures down to 1.6 K and magnetic fields up to 9 T. Our results have clearly shown the role of the effect of order/disorder site occupancy in these complex compounds with spin moments S=1. Different from most ludwigites, site-disordered Ni5Sn(O2BO3)2 ludwigite has shown three magnetic transitions at 80, 50, and 5 K. Local probes (Sn119 Mössbauer and muon spin spectroscopy) have indicated a partial long-range magnetic order with onsets at 80 and 50 K with predominant ferromagnetic interactions at 80 K and antiferromagnetic ones at 50 K. At lower temperatures, a partial spin-glass-like freezing of the moments has been developed concomitantly with fraction of the moments ordered at higher temperatures, a spin-glass-like and long-range magnetic order coexist and a spontaneous exchange bias effect has been observed. Applied magnetic fields have gradually reduced magnetic frustration, leading to a magnetically ordered state of the complete structure at 51 K under 9 T. The absence of double-exchange interactions in order/disorder Ni5Sn(O2BO3)2 ludwigites shows how the magnetic interactions that compete as direct exchange and double exchange are modified by the site occupancy of nonmagnetic Sn ions. Features as a third magnetic transition, the appearance of spontaneous exchange bias, and the enhancement of the coercive field at low temperatures were not found in the site-ordered isomer compound.
Volume
103
Issue
6
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Física nuclear
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85101925985
Source
Physical Review B
ISSN of the container
24699950
Sponsor(s)
Support from the Brazilian agencies FAPERJ, CNPq, FAPESP (Grant No. 09/54082-2) and FAPES are gratefully acknowledged. A scholarship by FAPERJ supported F.J.L.. E.S., E.B.-S., and F.J.L. were supported by DFG Project No. Li244/12-2. We also acknowledge LDRX-UFF (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil) for use of their laboratory facilities. We are grateful to H. Luetkens for support during the experiments at the Swiss Muon Source , Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland.
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