Spin Reorientation in Antiferromagnetic Layered FePt5P

Xin Gui, Madalynn Marshall, Ranuri S. Dissanayaka Mudiyanselage, Ryan A. Klein, Qiang Chen, Qiang Zhang, William Shelton, Haidong Zhou, Craig M. Brown, Huibo Cao, Martha Greenblatt, Weiwei Xie

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Abstract

FePt5P, a substitutional variant of the anti-CeCoIn5 structure type in the space group P4/mmm, was synthesized by a high-temperature solid-state method and structurally characterized by X-ray diffraction. FePt5P contains layers of FePt12 clusters formed by magnetically active Fe and heavy Pt with strong spin-orbit coupling (SOC); the layers are separated by P atoms. The various Fe-Pt distances in FePt12 clusters generate complex magnetic orders in FePt5P. According to temperature-dependent magnetic and specific heat measurements, FePt5P shows a stripe-type antiferromagnetic order at TN ≈ 90 K, which is also confirmed by resistivity measurements. Moreover, a spin reorientation occurs at ∼74 and ∼68 K in and out of the ab plane based on the specific heat measurements. The temperature-dependent neutron powder diffraction patterns demonstrate the antiferromagnetic order in FePt5P, and the spins orientate up to 58.4° with respect to the c axis at 10 K. First-principles calculations of FePt5P show the band splitting at the Fermi level by strong SOC and the s-d hybridization between P and Fe/Pt electrons enhances the structural stability and affects the magnetic ordering.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)3501-3508
Number of pages8
JournalACS Applied Electronic Materials
Volume3
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 24 2021

Funding

The work at Rutgers is supported by Beckman Young Investigator award and NSF- DMR-2053287. M.M. is supported by the DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR). R.A.K. acknowledges research support from the Hydrogen Materials - Advanced Research Consortium (HyMARC), established as part of the Energy Materials Network under the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies office, under contract number DE-AC36-8GO28308 to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). Neutron diffraction measurements used resources at the Spallation Neutron Source, a DOE Office of Science User Facility operated by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. a

Keywords

  • antiferromagnetic spintronics
  • layered magnetism
  • neutron scattering
  • spin reorientation
  • spin-orbit coupling

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