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Unconventional Critical Behavior in The Quasi-One-Dimensional S 1 Chain Nite O
Unconventional Critical Behavior in The Quasi-One-Dimensional S 1 Chain Nite O
Jun Han Lee,1 Marie Kratochvílová,2,3 Huibo Cao,4 Zahra Yamani,5 J. S. Kim,6 Je-Geun Park,2,3
G. R. Stewart,6 and Yoon Seok Oh 1,*
1
Department of Physics, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan 44919, Republic of Korea
2
Center for Correlated Electron Systems, IBS, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
3
Department of Physics & Astronomy, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
4
Neutron Scattering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
5
Canadian Neutron Beam Centre, Chalk River, Ontario K0J1J0, Canada
6
Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
Here we report a quasi-one-dimensional S = 1 chain compound NiTe2 O5 . From the comprehensive study of
the structure and magnetic properties on high-quality single-crystalline NiTe2 O5 , it is revealed that NiTe2 O5 un-
dergoes a transition into an intriguing long-range antiferromagnetic order at TN = 30.5 K, in which longitudinal
magnetic moments along the chain direction are ferromagnetically ordered, while their transverse components
have an alternating ferromagnetic-antiferromagnetic coupling. Even though the temperature dependence of
magnetic susceptibility represents an archetypal anisotropic antiferromagnetic order, we found that critical
behavior of unconventional nature with α ∼ 0.25 and β ∼ 0.18 is accompanied by the temperature evolution of
the antiferromagnetic order parameter.
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C. Critical exponents
Material [21]). Instead, the Debye approximation employing
three Debye temperatures (TD1 = 935 K, TD2 = 605 K, TD3 = In the vicinity of the phase transition, physical quantities
224 K) results in the best fit over a wide temperature range exhibit critical phenomena, which are represented by power
above TN [light blue curve in Fig. 2(b)]. By subtracting off laws and quantitatively characterized by exponents of the
the calculated phonon specific heat of the Debye model, power laws, so-called critical exponents. A set of the critical
temperature dependence of the magnetic specific heat Cmag (T ) exponents can clarify the universality class of phase transi-
is estimated and Cmag (T )/T [black dots in Fig. 2(c)] is in- tions without knowing a microscopic picture of complex inter-
tegrated with the temperature. A red solid line displays the actions and correlations. We have investigated the universality
temperature evolution of the magnetic entropy of NiTe2 O5 . class of the intriguing spin configuration in NiTe2 O5 with
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FIG. 3. Powder-neutron-diffraction patterns at (a) 300 K and (b) 2 K. Black and red lines are the observed and calculated results,
respectively. The upper and lower sets of hash marks signify the Bragg reflections of the nuclear and magnetic phase, respectively. In (b),
the positions (from left to right) of the magnetic reflections (010), (100), (201), (120), (013), and (210) are marked by arrows. (c) Observed
versus calculated intensity (square of the structure factor) of the magnetic Bragg reflections for NiTe2 O5 single crystal in arbitrary units. Inset
is a photo of the employed NiTe2 O5 single crystal.Schematic magnetic structure of NiTe2 O5 with (d) full magnetic moment of Ni2+ in the
c-[110] plane and (e) transverse component m⊥ = ma2 + mb2 of the magnetic moment from the experimental result of single-crystal neutron
diffraction.
critical behavior of Cmag (T ) and temperature-dependent β = 0.36). The unconventional critical behavior has been ob-
development
of magnetic Bragg peak (100) intensity served in the two-dimensional magnet within a window 0.1
I(100) (T ) − I0 . As shown in Figs. 4(a) and 4(b), Cmag (T ) β 0.25 [26], near the tricritical point of La0.6 Ca0.4 MnO3
and I(100) − I0 , where I0 = 8.437 33, follow power-law be- with β = 0.25 [27], and in a two-dimensional conductor with
havior below TN . From the slopes in the logarithmic plots β = 1 [28], etc. However, understanding of the unconven-
for TN and TN ± 0.1 K within an error of the measured tional critical behaviors in the one-dimensional system is still
transition temperature Tt , we determined that the critical unclear, and further experimental and theoretical studies are
exponents of α in Cmag (T ) ∼ [(Tt − T )/Tt ]−α and β in required. Since the magnetic ground state of NiTe2 O5 consists
I(100) ∼ [(Tt − T )/Tt ] are α = 0.14, 0.25, 0.31 and β =
2β of quantum spins similar to those in other low-dimensional
0.17, 0.18, 0.20 for Tt = TN – 0.1, TN , TN + 0.1 K, respec- quantum magnets [29], it is quintessential to explore a new
tively. As shown in Fig. 4(c), β = 0.18 presents the best fit universality class determined by exotic global properties.
between the experimental data and the power-law fitting result
for I(100) ∼ [(TN − T )/TN ]2β . Note that the studies of single-
crystal neutron diffraction and χdc (T ) seemingly reflect an III. CONCLUSION
archetypical three-dimensional AFM order, which can belong In conclusion, we find a quasi-one-dimensional chain
to either 3D Ising of β = 0.33 or 3D Heisenberg of β = 0.36. system NiTe2 O5 , in which edge-shared NiO6 octahedra
In contrast, it is discovered that the experimentally estimated form a chain and the chains are arranged in the distorted
critical exponents of α ∼ 0.25 and β ∼ 0.18 show a clear dis- square lattice. The temperature dependences of magnetic
crepancy with the conventional universality class of 3D Ising susceptibility and specific heat demonstrate an
(α = 0.11 and β = 0.33) and 3D Heisenberg (α = 0.12 and antiferromagnetic phase transition at ∼30.5 K, exhibiting an
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FIG. 4. Power-law fittings for the critical phenomena in (a) magnetic specific heat (red line) and (b) (100) magnetic reflection intensity
I(100) (blue line) on logarithmic scales. Considering the experimental error of the transition temperature Tt , the power laws are analyzed
for Tt = TN – 0.1, TN , TN + 0.1 K. The fittings give the critical exponents of α = 0.14, 0.25, 0.31 and β = 0.17, 0.18, 0.20 with respect to
Tt = TN – 0.1, TN , TN + 0.1 K, respectively. Background of (100) magnetic reflection I0 = 8.437 33 is estimated from a mean value of I(100) at
TN < T < 35 K. (c) Temperature evolution of the (100) magnetic reflection intensity below TN . The blue solid line is the best fit to the power
law, I(100) ∼ (TN − T )2β , where β = 0.18 is the critical exponent. Gray, cyan, pink, and purple solid lines are power-law behavior for β = 1/8
(2D Ising), 0.25, 0.33 (3D Ising), and 0.5 (mean field), respectively.
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