Electron spin resonance and ferromagnetic resonance spectroscopy in the high-field phase of the van der Waals magnet CrCl${}_3$

Abstract

We report a comprehensive high-field/high-frequency electron spin resonance (ESR) study on single crystals of the van der Waals magnet CrCl${}_3$. This material, although being known for quite a while, has received recent significant attention in a context of the use of van der Waals magnets in novel spintronic devices. Temperature-dependent measurements of the resonance fields were performed between 4 and 175 K and with the external magnetic field applied parallel and perpendicular to the honeycomb planes of the crystal structure. These investigations reveal that the resonance line shifts from the paramagnetic resonance position already at temperatures well above the transition into a magnetically ordered state. Thereby the existence of ferromagnetic short-range correlations above the transition is established and the intrinsically two-dimensional nature of the magnetism in the title compound is proven. To study details of the magnetic anisotropies in the field-induced effectively ferromagnetic state at low temperatures, frequency-dependent ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) measurements were conducted at 4 K. The observed anisotropy between the two magnetic-field orientations is analyzed by means of numerical simulations based on a phenomenological theory of FMR. These simulations are in excellent agreement with measured data if the shape anisotropy of the studied crystal is taken into account, while the magnetocrystalline anisotropy is found to be negligible in CrCl${}_3$. The absence of a significant intrinsic anisotropy thus renders this material as a practically ideal isotropic Heisenberg magnet.

9 pages, 5 figures, accepted in Physical Review Materials

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