Sm I3: 4f5 honeycomb magnet with spin-orbital entangled G7 Kramers doublet

Hajime Ishikawa, Ryosuke Kurihara, Takeshi Yajima, Daisuke Nishio-Hamane, Yusei Shimizu, Toshiro Sakakibara, Akira Matsuo, Koichi Kindo

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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
論文番号064405
ジャーナルPhysical Review Materials
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出版ステータスPublished - 6月 2022

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