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Article Dans Une Revue Journal of Alloys and Compounds Année : 2024

Unique magnetic structure of the vdW antiferromagnet VBr3

Milan Klicpera
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Ondřej Michal
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Dávid Hovančík
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Karel Carva
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Oscar Ramon Fabelo Rosa
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Vladimír Sechovský
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Jiří Pospíšil
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Résumé

VBr 3 is a van der Waals antiferromagnet below the Néel temperature of 26.5 K with a saturation moment of 1.2 µ B /f.u. above the metamagnetic transitions detected in the in-plane and out-of-plane directions. To reveal the AFM structure of VBr 3 experimentally, we performed a single-crystal neutron diffraction study on a large highquality crystal. The collected data confirmed a slight monoclinic distortion of the high-temperature rhombohedral structure below 90 K. The magnetic structure was, nevertheless, investigated within the R-3 model. The antiferromagnetic structure propagation vector k = (1, 0, ½) was revealed. In an attempt to determine the magnetic structure, 72 non-equivalent magnetic reflections were recorded. The experimental data were confronted with the magnetic space groups dictated by the R-3 lattice symmetry and propagation vector. The best agreement between the experimental data and the magnetic structure model was obtained for the space group P-1.1′_c. The magnetic unit cell of the proposed unique antiferromagnetic structure with periodicity 6c is built from two identical triple layers antiferromagnetically coupled along the c axis. Each triple layer comprises a Néel antiferromagnetic monolayer sandwiched between two antiferromagnetically coupled ferromagnetic monolayers.

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hal-04721521 , version 1 (04-10-2024)

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Milan Klicpera, Ondřej Michal, Dávid Hovančík, Karel Carva, Oscar Ramon Fabelo Rosa, et al.. Unique magnetic structure of the vdW antiferromagnet VBr3. Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2024, 1008, pp.176544. ⟨10.1016/j.jallcom.2024.176544⟩. ⟨hal-04721521⟩
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