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Noncollinear antiferromagnetic order and effect of spin-orbit coupling in spin-1 honeycomb lattice
Coexistence of metallic and nonmetallic properties in the pyrochlore Lu2Rh2O7
Transition metal oxides of the and block have recently become the
targets of materials discovery, largely due to their strong spin-orbit coupling
that can generate exotic magnetic and electronic states. Here we report the
high pressure synthesis of LuRhO, a new cubic pyrochlore oxide
based on Rh and characterizations via thermodynamic, electrical
transport, and muon spin relaxation measurements. Magnetic susceptibility
measurements reveal a large temperature-independent Pauli paramagnetic
contribution, while heat capacity shows an enhanced Sommerfeld coefficient,
= 21.8(1) mJ/mol-Rh K. Muon spin relaxation measurements confirm
that LuRhO remains paramagnetic down to 2 K. Taken in combination,
these three measurements suggest that LuRhO is a correlated
paramagnetic metal with a Wilson ratio of . However, electric
transport measurements present a striking contradiction as the resistivity of
LuRhO is observed to monotonically increase with decreasing
temperature, indicative of a nonmetallic state. Furthermore, although the
magnitude of the resistivity is that of a semiconductor, the temperature
dependence does not obey any conventional form. Thus, we propose that
LuRhO may belong to the same novel class of non-Fermi liquids as
the nonmetallic metal FeCrAs.Comment: 11 pages, 5 figure