Mechanism of basal-plane antiferromagnetism in the spin-orbit driven iridate Ba2IrO4

Vamshi M. Katukuri, Viktor Yushankhai, Liudmila Siurakshina +3

By ab initio many-body quantum chemistry calculations, we determine the strength of the symmetric anisotropy in the 5$d^5$ j $\approx$ 1/2 layered material Ba${}_2$IrO${}_4$. While the…