Hidden Magnetic Order in Triangular-Lattice Magnet Li2MnTeO6

Abstract

The manganese tellurate Li2MnTeO6 consists of trigonal spin lattices made up of Mn4+ (d3, S = 3/2) ions. The magnetic properties of this compound were characterized by several experimental techniques, which include magnetic susceptibility, specific heat, dielectric permittivity, electron spin resonance (ESR), nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and neutron powder diffraction (NPD) measurements, and by density functional calculations (DFT). The magnetic susceptibility chi(T) demonstrates very unusual behavior. It isdescribed by the Curie-Weiss law at high temperature with Curie-Weiss temperature of Theta = -74 K, exhibits no obvious anomaly indicative of a long-range magnetic ordering at low magnetic fields. At high magnetic fields, however, the character of chi(T) changes showing a maximum at about 9 K. That this maximum of chi(T) reflects the onset of an antiferromagnetic order was confirmed by specific heat measurements, which exhibit a clear lambda-type anomaly at TN around 8.5 K even at zero magnetic field, and by 7Li NMR and dielectric permittivity measurements. The magnetic structure of Li2MnTeO6, determined by neutron powder diffraction measurements at 1.6 K, is described by the 120-degree non-collinear spin structure with the propagation vector k = (1/3, 1/3, 0). Consistent with this finding, the spin exchange interactions evaluated for Li2MnTeO6 by density functional calculations are dominated by the nearest-neighbor antiferromagnetic exchange within each triangular spin lattice. This spin lattice is strongly spin frustrated with f = |Theta|/TN around 8 and exhibits a two-dimensional magnetic character in a broad temperature range above TN.

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