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Magnetic phase evolution in the spinel compounds Zn1−xCoxCr2O4

Brent C Melot1,2, Jennifer E Drewes1,2, Ram Seshadri1,2, E M Stoudenmire3 and Arthur P Ramirez4

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We present the magnetic properties of complete solid solutions of ZnCr2O4 and CoCr2O4: two well studied oxide spinels with very different magnetic ground states. ZnCr2O4, with non-magnetic d10 cations occupying the A site and magnetic d3 cations on the B site, is a highly frustrated antiferromagnet. CoCr2O4, with magnetic d7 cations (three unpaired electrons) on the A site as well, exhibits Néel ferrimagnetism as well as commensurate and incommensurate non-collinear magnetic order. More recently, CoCr2O4 has been studied extensively because of its polar behavior which arises from conical magnetic ordering. Gradually introducing magnetism on the A site of ZnCr2O4 results in a transition from frustrated antiferromagnetism to glassy magnetism at low concentrations of Co, and eventually to ferrimagnetic and conical ground states at higher concentrations. Real-space Monte Carlo simulations of the magnetic susceptibility suggest that the first magnetic ordering transition and features of the susceptibility across x are captured by near-neighbor self-couplings and cross-couplings between the magnetic A and B atoms. We present, as a part of this study, a method for displaying the temperature dependence of magnetic susceptibility in a manner which helps distinguish between compounds possessing purely antiferromagnetic interactions from compounds where other kinds of ordering are present.


PACS

75.30.Kz Magnetic phase boundaries (including magnetic transitions, metamagnetism, etc.)

75.30.Cr Saturation moments and magnetic susceptibilities

75.50.Ee Antiferromagnetics

75.50.Gg Ferrimagnetics

Subjects

Condensed matter: electrical, magnetic and optical

Dates

Issue 21 (27 May 2009)

Received 1 September 2008, in final form 7 April 2009

Published 1 May 2009



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