Successive spin-flop transitions of Neel-type antiferromagnet Li${}_2$MnO${}_3$ single crystal with honeycomb-lattice

Abstract

We have carried out high magnetic field studies of single-crystalline Li${}_2$MnO${}_3$, a honeycomb lattice antiferromagnet. Its magnetic phase diagram was mapped out using magnetization measurements at applied fields up to 35 T. Our results show that it undergoes two successive meta-magnetic transitions around 9 T fields applied perpendicular to the ab-plane (along the c*-axis). These phase transitions are completely absent in the magnetization measured with field applied along the ab-plane. In order to understand this magnetic phase diagram, we developed a mean-field model starting from the correct Neel-type magnetic structure, consistent with our single crystal neutron diffraction data at zero field. Our model calculations succeeded in explaining the two meta-magnetic transitions that arise when Li${}_2$MnO${}_3$ enters two different spin-flop phases from the zero field Neel phase.

arXiv comment23 pages, 5 figures; Phys. Rev. B (accepted)

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