- By:
- Zhang, Qiang ; Cao, Guixin; Ye, Feng ; Cao, Huibo ; Matsuda, Masaaki ; Tennant, David A; Chi, Songxue ; Nagler, Stephen E; Shelton, William; Jin, Rongying; Plummer, Ward; Zhang, Jiandi
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review B
- Page Number:
- 94416
- Volume:
- 99
- Issue Number:
- 9
- Publication Date:
- April 2, 2019
- View DOI Listing:
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.99.094416
Abstract
The dimensionality of the electronic and magnetic structure of a given material is generally predetermined by its crystal structure. Here, using elastic and inelastic neutron scattering combined with magnetization measurements, we find unusual magnetic behavior in three-dimensional (3D) Ba2CoO4. In spite of isolated CoO4 tetrahedra, the system exhibits a 3D noncollinear antiferromagnetic order in the ground state with an anomalously large Curie-Weiss temperature of 110 K compared to TN=26 K. More unexpectedly, spin dynamics displays quasi-two-dimensional spin-wave dispersion with an unusually large spin gap, and one-dimensional magnetoelastic coupling. Our results indicate that Ba2CoO4 is a unique system for exploring the interplay between isolated polyhedra, low-dimensional magnetism, and spin states in oxides.
