Orbital Configurations and Magnetic Properties of Double-Layered Antiferromagnet Cs$_3$Cu$_2$Cl$_4$Br$_3$

Details Orbital Configurations and Magnetic Properties of Double-Layered Antiferromagnet Cs$_3$Cu$_2$Cl$_4$Br$_3$ Orbital Configurations and Magnetic Properties of Double-Layered Antiferromagnet Cs$_3$Cu$_2$Cl$_4$Br$_3$

2006-11-08

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0611195v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

6pages. 6figures, to appear in J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. Vol.76 No.1

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We report the single-crystal X-ray analysis and magnetic properties of a new double-layered perovskite antiferromagnet, Cs$_3$Cu$_2$Cl$_4$Br$_3$. This structure is composed of Cu$_2$Cl$_4$Br$_3$ double layers with elongated CuCl$_4$Br$_2$ octahedra and is closely related to the Sr$_3$Ti$_2$O$_7$ structure. An as-grown crystal has a singlet ground state with a large excitation gap of $\Delta/k_{\rm B}\simeq 2000$ K, due to the strong antiferromagnetic interaction between the two layers. Cs$_3$Cu$_2$Cl$_4$Br$_3$ undergoes a structural phase transition at $T_{\rm s}\simeq330$ K accompanied by changes in the orbital configurations of Cu$^{2+}$ ions. Once a Cs$_3$Cu$_2$Cl$_4$Br$_3$ crystal is heated above $T_{\rm s}$, its magnetic susceptibility obeys the Curie-Weiss law with decreasing temperature even below $T_{\rm s}$ and does not exhibit anomalies at $T_{\rm s}$. This implies that in the heated crystal, the orbital state of the high-temperature phase remains unchanged below $T_{\rm s}$, and thus, this orbital state is the metastable state. The structural phase transition at $T_{\rm s}$ is characterized as an order-disorder transition of Cu$^{2+}$ orbitals.

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