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We report magnetic properties of a 4f honeycomb iodide SmI3 made up of edge-shared network of SmI6 octahedra. High temperature magnetic susceptibility indicates a G7 Kramers doublet ground state of Sm3+(4f5) ions stabilized by the spin-orbit coupling and octahedral crystal electric field, which interact with a Sm-I-Sm bond angle of nearly 90°. Magnetization measurements down to 0.1 K detected antiferromagnetic correlations and an anomaly in the magnetization curve before saturation without a sign of long-range order. Relevance between SmI3 and the antiferromagnetic Kitaev material proposed in the 4f-electron system is discussed.
| 本文言語 | English |
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| 論文番号 | 064405 |
| ジャーナル | Physical Review Materials |
| 巻 | 6 |
| 号 | 6 |
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| 出版ステータス | Published - 6月 2022 |