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- Klyushina, E. S., et al.
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Signatures for Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless critical behavior in the planar antiferromagnet BaNi2V2O8
- 2021
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In: Physical Review B. - : American Physical Society (APS). - 2469-9950 .- 2469-9969. ; 104:6
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- We investigate the critical properties of the spin-1 honeycomb antiferromagnet BaNi2V2O8, both below and above the ordering temperature T-N using neutron diffraction and muon spin rotation measurements. Our results characterize BaNi2V2O8 as a two-dimensional (2D) antiferromagnet across the entire temperature range, displaying a series of crossovers from 2D XY to 2D XXZ and then to 2D Heisenberg behavior with increasing temperature. In particular, the extracted critical exponent of the order parameter reveals a narrow temperature regime close to T-N, in which the system behaves as a 2D XY antiferromagnet. Above T-N, evidence for Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless behavior driven by vortex excitations is obtained from the scaling of the correlation length. Our experimental results are in agreement with classical and quantum Monte Carlo simulations performed using microscopic magnetic model Hamiltonians for BaNi2V2O8.
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- Klyushina, E. S., et al.
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Investigation of the spin-1 honeycomb antiferromagnet BaNi2V2O8 with easy-plane anisotropy
- 2017
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In: Physical Review B. - : AMER PHYSICAL SOC. - 2469-9950 .- 2469-9969. ; 96:21
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The magnetic properties of the two-dimensional, S = 1 honeycomb antiferromagnet BaNi2V2O8 have been comprehensively studied using dc susceptibility measurements and inelastic neutron scattering techniques. The magnetic excitation spectrum is found to be dispersionless within experimental resolution between the honeycomb layers, while it disperses strongly within the honeycomb plane where it consists of two gapped spin-wave modes. The magnetic excitations are compared to linear spin-wave theory allowing the Hamiltonian to be determined. The first-and second-neighbor magnetic exchange interactions are antiferromagnetic and lie within the ranges 10.90 meV <= J(n) <= 13.35 meV and 0.85 meV <= J(nn) <= 1.65 meV, respectively. The interplane coupling J(out) is four orders of magnitude weaker than the intraplane interactions, confirming the highly two-dimensional magnetic behavior of this compound. The sizes of the energy gaps are used to extract the magnetic anisotropies and reveal substantial easy-plane anisotropy and a very weak in-plane easy-axis anisotropy. Together these results reveal that BaNi2V2O8 is a candidate compound for the investigation of vortex excitations and Berezinsky-Kosterliz-Thouless phenomenon.
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