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Competing Ground States in Triple-layered Sr4Ru3O10: Verging on Itinerant Ferromagnetism with Critical Fluctuations
Sr4Ru3O10 is characterized by a sharp metamagnetic transition and
ferromagnetic behavior occurring within the basal plane and along the c-axis,
respectively. Resistivity at magnetic field, B, exhibits low-frequency quantum
oscillations when B||c-axis and large magnetoresistivity accompanied by
critical fluctuations driven by the metamagnetism when B^c-axis. The complex
behavior evidenced in resistivity, magnetization and specific heat presented is
not characteristic of any obvious ground states, and points to an exotic state
that shows a delicate balance between fluctuations and order.Comment: 18 pages, 4 figure
Suppression of magnetism in Ba5AlIr2O11: interplay of Hund's coupling, molecular orbitals and spin-orbit interaction
The electronic and magnetic properties of BaAlIrO containing
Ir-Ir dimers are investigated using the GGA and GGA+SOC calculations. We found
that strong suppression of the magnetic moment in this compound recently found
in [J. Terzic {\it et al.}, Phys. Rev. B {\bf 91}, 235147 (2015)] is not due to
charge-ordering, but is related to the joint effect of the spin-orbit
interaction and strong covalency, resulting in the formation of metal-metal
bonds. They conspire and act against the intra-atomic Hund's rule exchange
interaction to reduce total magnetic moment of the dimer. We argue that the
same mechanism could be relevant for other and dimerized transition
metal compounds
Fluence dependent femtosecond quasi-particle and Eu^{2+} -spin relaxation dynamics in EuFe_{2}(As,P)_{2}
We investigated temperature and fluence dependent dynamics of the time
resolved optical reflectivity in undoped spin-density-wave (SDW) and doped
superconducting (SC) EuFe(As,P) with emphasis on the ordered
Eu-spin temperature region. The data indicate that the SDW order
coexists at low temperature with the SC and Eu-ferromagnetic order.
Increasing the excitation fluence leads to a thermal suppression of the
Eu-spin order due to the crystal-lattice heating while the SDW order is
suppressed nonthermally at a higher fluence
First-principles study of multiferroic RbFe(MoO)
We have investigated the magnetic structure and ferroelectricity in
RbFe(MoO) via first-principles calculations. Phenomenological analyses
have shown that ferroelectricity may arise due to both the triangular chirality
of the magnetic structure, and through coupling between the magnetic helicity
and the ferroaxial structural distortion. Indeed, it was recently proposed that
the structural distortion plays a key role in stabilising the chiral magnetic
structure itself. We have determined the relative contribution of the two
mechanisms via \emph{ab-initio} calculations. Whilst the structural axiality
does induce the magnetic helix by modulating the symmetric exchange
interactions, the electric polarization is largely due to the in-plane spin
triangular chirality, with both electronic and ionic contributions being of
relativistic origin. At the microscopic level, we interpret the polarization as
a secondary steric consequence of the inverse Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya mechanism
and accordingly explain why the ferroaxial component of the electric
polarization must be small
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