Brent C Melot et al 2009 J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 21 216007 doi:10.1088/0953-8984/21/21/216007
Brent C Melot1,2, Jennifer E Drewes1,2, Ram Seshadri1,2, E M Stoudenmire3 and Arthur P Ramirez4
Show affiliationsWe 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.
75.30.Kz Magnetic phase boundaries (including magnetic transitions, metamagnetism, etc.)
Issue 21 (27 May 2009)
Received 1 September 2008, in final form 7 April 2009
Published 1 May 2009
Brent C Melot et al 2009 J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 21 216007
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