Book ; Online: Correlation Driven Magnetic Frustration and Insulating Behavior of TiF$_3$
2023
Abstract: We investigate the halide perovskite TiF$_3$, renowned for its intricate interplay between structure, electronic correlations, magnetism, and thermal expansion. Despite its simple structure, understanding its low-temperature magnetic behavior has been a ... ...
Abstract | We investigate the halide perovskite TiF$_3$, renowned for its intricate interplay between structure, electronic correlations, magnetism, and thermal expansion. Despite its simple structure, understanding its low-temperature magnetic behavior has been a challenge. Previous theories proposed antiferromagnetic ordering. In contrast, experimental signatures for an ordered magnetic state are absent down to 10~K. Our current study has successfully reevaluated the theoretical modeling of TiF$_3$, unveiling the significance of strong electronic correlations as the key driver for its insulating behavior and magnetic frustration. In addition, our frequency-dependent optical reflectivity measurements exhibit clear signs of an insulating state. Analysis of the calculated magnetic data gives an antiferromagnetic exchange coupling with a net Weiss temperature of order 25~K as well as a magnetic response consistent with a $S$=1/2 local moment per Ti$^{3+}$. Yet, the system shows no susceptibility peak at this temperature scale and appears free of long-range antiferromagnetic order down to 1~K. Extending ab initio modeling of the material to larger unit cells shows a tendency for relaxing into a non-collinear magnetic ordering, with a shallow energy landscape between several magnetic ground states, promoting the status of this simple, nearly cubic perovskite structured material as a candidate spin liquid. Comment: 6 pages, 5 figures |
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Keywords | Condensed Matter - Strongly Correlated Electrons ; Condensed Matter - Materials Science ; Physics - Computational Physics |
Subject code | 530 |
Publishing date | 2023-10-19 |
Publishing country | us |
Document type | Book ; Online |
Database | BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection) |
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