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  • 标题:Probing phase transition in VO2 with the novel observation of low-frequency collective spin excitation
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  • 作者:Raktima Basu ; V. Srihari ; Manas Sardar
  • 期刊名称:Scientific Reports
  • 电子版ISSN:2045-2322
  • 出版年度:2020
  • 卷号:10
  • 期号:1
  • 页码:1-11
  • DOI:10.1038/s41598-020-58813-x
  • 出版社:Springer Nature
  • 摘要:VO 2 is well known for its first order, reversible, metal-to-insulator transition (MIT) along with a simultaneous structural phase transition (SPT) from a high-temperature metallic rutile tetragonal (R) to an insulating low-temperature monoclinic (M1) phase via two other insulating metastable phases of monoclinic M2 and triclinic T. At the same time, VO 2 gains tremendous attention because of the half-a-century-old controversy over its origin, whether electron-electron correlation or electron-phonon coupling trigger the phase transition. In this regard, V 1-x Mg x O 2 samples were grown in stable phases of VO 2 (M1, M2, and T) by controlled doping of Mg. We have observed a new collective mode in the low-frequency Raman spectra of all three insulating M1, M2 and T phases. We identify this mode with the breather (singlet spin excitation) mode about a spin-Pierls dimerized one dimensional spin ½ Heisenberg chain. The measured frequencies of these collective modes are phenomenologically consistent with the superexchange coupling strength between V spin ½ moments in all three phases. The significant deviation of Stokes to anti-Stokes intensity ratio of this low-frequency Raman mode from the usual thermal factor exp( hʋ / K B T ) for phonons, and the orthogonal dependency of the phonon and spinon vibration in the polarized Raman study confirm its origin as spin excitations. The shift in the frequency of spin-wave and simultaneous increase in the transition temperature in the absence of any structural change confirms that SPT does not prompt MIT in VO 2 . On the other hand, the presence of spin-wave confirms the perturbation due to spin-Peierls dimerization leading to SPT. Thus, the observation of spin-excitations resulting from 1-D Heisenberg spin-½ chain can finally resolve the years-long debate in VO 2 and can be extended to oxide-based multiferroics, which are useful for various potential device applications.
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