Impurity-induced spin density wave in the thermoelectric layered cobaltite [Ca${}_2$CoO${}_3$]${}_{0.62}$[CoO${}_2$]

Abstract

We investigate the Sn-substitution effect on the thermoelectric transport properties of the layered cobaltite [Ca${}_2$CoO${}_3$]${}_{0.62}$[CoO${}_2$] single crystals, which exhibit a non-monotonic temperature variation of the electrical resistivity and the Seebeck coefficient owing to the complex electronic and magnetic states. We find that the onset temperature of the short-range spin-density-wave (SDW) formation increases with the substituted Sn content, indicating the impurity-induced stabilization of the SDW order, reminiscent of the disorder/impurity-induced spin order in the cuprate superconductors. The Seebeck coefficient is well related to such impurity effects, as it is slightly enhanced below the onset temperatures, implying a decrease in the carrier concentration due to a pseudo-gap formation associated with the SDW ordering. We discuss the site-dependent substitution effects including earlier studies, and suggest that substitution to the conducting CoO${}_2$ layers is essential to increase the onset temperature, consistent with the impurity-induced SDW picture realized in the conducting layers with the cylindrical Fermi surface.

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