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Magnetic structure and high-field magnetization of the distorted kagome lattice antiferromagnet Cs2Cu3SnF12

K. Matan1,2,*, T. Ono3, G. Gitgeatpong1,2,4, K. de Roos1,†, P. Miao5, S. Torii5, T. Kamiyama5, A. Miyata6, A. Matsuo6 et al.

K. Kindo6, S. Takeyama6, Y. Nambu7, P. Piyawongwatthana8, T. J. Sato8, and H. Tanaka9

  • 1Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Mahidol University, 272 Rama VI Road, Ratchathewi, Bangkok 10400, Thailand
  • 2ThEP, Commission of Higher Education, 328 Si Ayuthaya Road, Bangkok 10400, Thailand
  • 3Department of Physical Science, School of Science, Osaka Prefecture University, Sakai, Osaka 599-8531, Japan
  • 4Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Phranakhon Rajabhat University, Bangkok 10220, Thailand
  • 5Neutron Science Laboratory, Institute of Materials Structure Science, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), 1-1 Oho, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801, Japan
  • 6Institute for Solid State Physics, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8581, Japan
  • 7Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8577, Japan
  • 8Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University, 2-1-1 Katahira, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8577, Japan
  • 9Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8551, Japan

  • *Corresponding author: kittiwit.mat@mahidol.ac.th
  • †Present Address: Radboud University, Institute for Molecules and Materials, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525 AJ Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
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Phys. Rev. B 99, 224404 – Published 3 June, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.99.224404

Abstract

High-resolution time-of-flight powder neutron diffraction and high-field magnetization were measured to investigate the magnetic structure and existence of a field-induced magnetic phase transition in the distorted kagome antiferromagnet Cs2Cu3SnF12. Upon cooling from room temperature, the compound undergoes a structural phase transition at Tt=185K from the rhombohedral space-group R3¯m with the perfect kagome spin network to the monoclinic space-group P21/n with the distorted kagome planes. The distortion results in three inequivalent exchange interactions among the S=1/2Cu2+ spins that magnetically order below TN=20.2K. Magnetization measured with a magnetic field applied within the kagome plane reveals small in-plane ferromagnetism resulting from spin canting. On the other hand, the out-of-plane magnetization does not show a clear hysteresis loop of the ferromagnetic component nor a prominent anomaly up to 170 T with the exception of the subtle kneelike bend around 90 T, which could indicate the 1/3 magnetization plateau. The combined analysis using the irreducible representations of the magnetic space groups and magnetic structure refinement on the neutron powder-diffraction data suggests that the magnetic moments order in the magnetic space-group P21′/n′ with the all-in–all-out spin structure, which by symmetry allows for the in-plane canting, consistent with the in-plane ferromagnetism observed in the magnetization.

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Phys. Rev. B 99, 224404– Published 3 June, 2019
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