Insight into the magnetic behavior of Sr2IrO4: A spontaneous magnetization study

Publication date: Available online 5 March 2019Source: Physics Letters AAuthor(s): Imtiaz Noor Bhatti, A.K. PramanikAbstractSr2IrO4 is a weak ferromagnet where the spin arrangement is canted anti-ferromagnetic (AF). Moreover, the spin-structure coupling plays an important role in magnetic behavior of Sr2IrO4. In this concern the magnetization under zero applied field i.e. spontaneous magnetization would be interesting to study and would give insight into the novel magnetic behavior of Sr2IrO4. Sophisticated techniques like neutron diffraction, μSR etc has been used to understand the magnetic behavior of Sr2IrO4 under zero applied field. To understand the magnetic behavior we have performed field and temperature dependent magnetization study. The measured field and temperature dependent magnetic data is analyzed rigorously. We have attempted to understand the temperature dependance of spontaneous magnetization, remanent magnetization and coercive force. We observe that the spontaneous magnetization extracted from Arrott plot shows that the Sr2IrO4 is not an ideal ferromagnet. The temperature dependent coercive field follows Guant's model of strong domain wall pinning. Our investigation explicit the temperature dependence of various magnetic properties shows the magnetic transitions from paramagnetic to ferromagnetic phase with Tc around 225 K and a low temperature evolution of magnetic moment around TM∼90 K.

Source: Physics Letters A - March 6, 2019 Category: Physics Source Type: research