Incommensurate and multiple-$q$ magnetic misfit order in the frustrated quantum spin ladder material antlerite ${\mathrm{Cu}}_{3}{\mathrm{SO}}_{4}{(\mathrm{OH})}_{4}$

Incommensurate and multiple- $q$ magnetic misfit order in the frustrated quantum spin ladder material antlerite ${Cu}_{3} {SO}_{4} {(OH)}_{4}$

Anton A. Kulbakov, Elaheh Sadrollahi, Florian Rasch, Maxim Avdeev, Sebastian Gaß, Laura Teresa Corredor Bohorquez, Anja U. B. Wolter, Manuel Feig, Roman Gumeniuk, Hagen Poddig, Markus Stötzer, F. Jochen Litterst, Inés Puente-Orench, Andrew Wildes, Eugen Weschke, Jochen Geck, Dmytro S. Inosov, and Darren C. Peets

Phys. Rev. B 106, 174431 – Published 23 November 2022

Abstract

In frustrated magnetic systems, the competition amongst interactions can introduce extremely high degeneracy and prevent the system from readily selecting a unique ground state. In such cases, the magnetic order is often exquisitely sensitive to the balance among the interactions, allowing tuning among novel magnetically ordered phases. In antlerite, ${Cu}_{3} {SO}_{4} {(OH)}_{4}, {Cu}^{2 +}$ ( $S = 1 / 2$ ) quantum spins populate three-leg zigzag ladders in a highly frustrated quasi-one-dimensional structural motif. We demonstrate that at zero applied field, in addition to its recently reported low-temperature phase of coupled ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic spin chains, this mineral hosts an incommensurate $helical +$ cycloidal state, an idle-spin state, and a multiple- $q$ phase which is the magnetic analog of misfit crystal structures. The antiferromagnetic order on the central leg is reentrant. The high tunability of the magnetism in antlerite makes it a particularly promising platform for pursuing exotic magnetic order.

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Received 6 July 2022
Revised 6 November 2022
Accepted 9 November 2022

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.106.174431

Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)

Frustrated magnetism Magnetic order

Minerals Single crystal materials

Magnetization measurements Muon spin relaxation & rotation Neutron diffraction Specific heat measurements

Condensed Matter, Materials & Applied Physics

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Anton A. Kulbakov¹, Elaheh Sadrollahi ¹, Florian Rasch¹, Maxim Avdeev ^2,3, Sebastian Gaß ⁴, Laura Teresa Corredor Bohorquez ⁴, Anja U. B. Wolter ^4,5, Manuel Feig⁶, Roman Gumeniuk ⁶, Hagen Poddig ⁷, Markus Stötzer⁸, F. Jochen Litterst ⁹, Inés Puente-Orench ^10,11, Andrew Wildes ¹¹, Eugen Weschke¹², Jochen Geck^1,5, Dmytro S. Inosov ^1,5,*, and Darren C. Peets ^1,†

¹Institut für Festkörper- und Materialphysik, Technische Universität Dresden, 01069 Dresden, Germany
²Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, Lucas Heights, NSW 2234, Australia
³School of Chemistry, The University of Sydney, Sydney 2006, Australia
⁴Institute for Solid State Research, Leibniz IFW Dresden, 01069 Dresden, Germany
⁵Würzburg-Dresden Cluster of Excellence on Complexity and Topology in Quantum Matter – ct.qmat, Technische Universität Dresden, 01069 Dresden, Germany
⁶Institut für Experimentelle Physik, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, 09596 Freiberg, Germany
⁷Anorganische Chemie II, Technische Universität Dresden, 01069 Dresden, Germany
⁸Anorganische Chemie I, Technische Universität Dresden, 01069 Dresden, Germany
⁹Institut für Physik der Kondensierten Materie, Technische Universität Braunschweig, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany
¹⁰Instituto de Nanociencia y Materiales de Aragón (INMA), CSIC-Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza 50009, Spain
¹¹Institut Laue-Langevin, 71 Avenue des Martyrs, CS 20156, CEDEX 9, 38042 Grenoble, France
¹²Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie, BESSY II, 12489 Berlin, Germany

^*dmytro.inosov@tu-dresden.de
^†darren.peets@tu-dresden.de

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Incommensurate and multiple- $q$ magnetic misfit order in the frustrated quantum spin ladder material antlerite ${Cu}_{3} {SO}_{4} {(OH)}_{4}$

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