Piezomagnetic effect as a counterpart of negative thermal expansion in magnetically frustrated Mn-based antiperovskite nitrides

The interplay of magnetic and elastic properties due to geometrical frustration in antiferromagnetic Mn-aniperovskite nitrides manifests itself in a range of phenomena such as the barocaloric (BCE), piezomagnetic (PME), magnetovolume effect (MVE), and the related negative thermal expansion (NTE). This systematic computational study uses density functional theory across a wide range of cubic antiperovskites Mn$_3$AN (A = Rh, Pd, Ag, Co, Ni, Zn, Ga, In, Sn) in order to account for variations in the magnetic frustration based on features of the electronic structure. It focuses on PME - the linear dependence of magnetisation on applied biaxial strain. The PME in Mn$_3$SnN predicted here is an order of magnitude larger than PME modelled so far in Mn$_3$GaN,cite{lukashev2008theory} which opens the way to composite magnetoelectric effect in piezomagnetic/piezoelectric heterostructures. Moreover, the simulated PME as a zero temperature property is shown to be inversely proportional to the measured spontaneous volume expansion at a phase transition from paramagnetic (PM) to antiferromagnetic (AFM) state.cite{takenaka2014magnetovolume} On the fundamental level, such relation implies a significant suppression of spin fluctuations by the strong frustration in these systems. At the same time it can be used as a tool in search for materials with large negative thermal expansion and barocaloric effect

Giant Barocaloric Effect at the Spin Crossover Transition of a Molecular Crystal

The first experimental evidence for a giant, conventional barocaloric effect (BCE) associated with a pressure‐driven spin crossover transition near room temperature is provided. Magnetometry, neutron scattering, and calorimetry are used to explore the pressure dependence of the SCO phase transition in polycrystalline samples of protonated and partially deuterated [FeL2][BF4]2 [L = 2,6‐di(pyrazol‐1‐yl)pyridine] at applied pressures of up to 120 MPa (1200 bar). The data indicate that, for a pressure change of only 0–300 bar (0–30 MPa), an adiabatic temperature change of 3 K is observed at 262 K or 257 K in the protonated and deuterated materials, respectively. This BCE is equivalent to the magnetocaloric effect (MCE) observed in gadolinium in a magnetic field change of 0–1 Tesla. The work confirms recent predictions that giant, conventional BCEs will be found in a wide range of SCO compounds

Giant Magnetoelastic Coupling in a Metallic Helical Metamagnet

Using high resolution neutron diffraction and capacitance dilatometry we show that the thermal evolution of the helimagnetic state in CoMnSi is accompanied by a change in inter-atomic distances of up to 2%, the largest ever found in a metallic magnet. Our results and the picture of competing exchange and strongly anisotropic thermal expansion that we use to understand them sheds light on a new mechanism for large magnetoelastic effects that does not require large spin-orbit coupling.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures (3 in colour

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