Pb2VO(PO4)2

Chemical formula:

Pb2VO(PO4)2

Lattice type:


Monoclinic

How to grow:

Bridgman furnace

Magnetic model:

S=1/2 layered ferro-antiferromagnet

Why is it cool:

Frustrated two-dimensional magnet with exotic pre-saturation states

Led vanadate single crystal

Led vanadyl phosphate belongs to the frustrated vanadium-based square lattice magnets family. Well, the materials that are approximating the frustrated square lattice, as the real structure has a lower symmetry and more inequivalent magnetic interactions. Still, in this quantum ferro-antiferromagnet the "side" and "diagonal" exchanges are different in sign and they are competing for making the ground state either a columnar antiferromagnet or a plain ferromagnet. Antiferromagnetism definitely wins at low field, but closer to saturation some extra unexpected phase appears. The intrigue is, that for a similar setting one may expect a non-dipolar "spin nematic" type of magnetic order. If this is really it, or just an alternative "conventional" ordered structure, future work will tell.


High-field diffraction
Dissapearance of magnetic order before saturation in Pb2VO(PO4)2 captured with high-field neutron diffraction.

F. Landolt, S. Bettler, Z. Yan, S. Gvasaliya, A. Zheludev, S. Mishra, I. Sheikin, S. Krämer, M. Horvatić, A. Gazizulina , O. Prokhnenko, Pre-​saturation phase in the frustrated ferro-​antiferromagnet Pb2VO(PO4)2 external page arXiv:2006.04592

S. Bettler, F. Landolt, Ö. M. Aksoy, Z. Yan, S. Gvasaliya, Y. Qiu, E. Ressouche, K. Beauvois, S. Raymond, A. N. Ponomaryov, S. A. Zvyagin, and A. Zheludev, Magnetic structure and spin waves in the frustrated ferro-​antiferro magnet Pb2VO(PO4)2, external page arXiv:1902.11172v1; external page Phys. Rev. B 99, 184437 (2019)

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