Crystal growth and magnetic structure of MnBi2Te4

Millimeter-sized MnBi2Te4 single crystals are grown out of a Bi-Te flux and characterized using magnetic, transport, scanning tunneling microscopy, and spectroscopy measurements. The magnetic structure of MnBi2Te4 below TN is determined by powder and single-crystal neutron diffraction measurements....

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Veröffentlicht in:Physical review materials 2019-06, Vol.3 (6)
Hauptverfasser: Yan, Jiaqiang, Zhang, Qiang, Heitmann, Thomas, Huang, Zengle, Chen, K. Y., Cheng, J. -G., Wu, Weida, Vaknin, David, Sales, Brian C., McQueeney, Robert John
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Zusammenfassung:Millimeter-sized MnBi2Te4 single crystals are grown out of a Bi-Te flux and characterized using magnetic, transport, scanning tunneling microscopy, and spectroscopy measurements. The magnetic structure of MnBi2Te4 below TN is determined by powder and single-crystal neutron diffraction measurements. Below TN = 24 K, Mn2+ moments order ferromagnetically in the ab plane but antiferromagnetically along the crystallographic c axis. The ordered moment is 4.04(13)μB/Mn at 10 K and aligned along the crystallographic c axis in an A-type antiferromagnetic order. Below TN, the electrical resistivity drops upon cooling or when going across the metamagnetic transition in increasing magnetic fields. A critical scattering effect is observed in the vicinity of TN in the temperature dependence of thermal conductivity, indicating strong spin-lattice coupling in this compound. Yet, no anomaly is observed in the temperature dependence of thermopower around TN. Fine tuning of the magnetism and/or electronic band structure is needed for the proposed topological properties of this compound. The growth protocol reported here might be applied to grow high-quality crystals where the electronic band structure and magnetism can be finely tuned by chemical substitutions.
ISSN:2475-9953
2475-9953
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.3.064202