@article {645, title = {Magnetic nanopantograph in the SrCu 2 (BO 3 ) 2 Shastry{\textendash}Sutherland lattice}, journal = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences}, volume = {112}, year = {2015}, month = {Feb-17-2015}, pages = { 1971-1976}, abstract = {

Magnetic materials having competing, i.e., frustrated, interactions can display magnetism prolific in intricate structures, discrete jumps, plateaus, and exotic spin states with increasing applied magnetic fields. When the associated elastic energy cost is not too expensive, this high potential can be enhanced by the existence of an omnipresent magnetoelastic coupling. Here we report experimental and theoretical evidence of a nonnegligible magnetoelastic coupling in one of these fascinating materials, SrCu2(BO3)(2) (SCBO). First, using pulsed-field transversal and longitudinal magnetostriction measurements we show that its physical dimensions, indeed, mimic closely its unusually rich field-induced magnetism. Second, using density functional-based calculations we find that the driving force behind the magnetoelastic coupling is the CuOCu superexchange angle that, due to the orthogonal Cu2+ dimers acting as pantographs, can shrink significantly (0.44\%) with minute (0.01\%) variations in the lattice parameters. With this original approach we also find a reduction of similar to 10\% in the intradimer exchange integral J, enough to make predictions for the highly magnetized states and the effects of applied pressure on SCBO.

}, issn = {0027-8424}, doi = {10.1073/pnas.1421414112}, url = {http://www.pnas.org/lookup/doi/10.1073/pnas.1421414112}, author = {Guillaume Radtke and Andres Sa{\`u}l and Dabkowska, Hanna A. and Salamon, Myron B. and Jaime, Marcelo} } @article {117, title = {Magnetic nanopantograph in the SrCu2(BO3)2 Shastry{\textendash}Sutherland lattice}, journal = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences}, volume = {112}, year = {2015}, month = {Feb-02-2015}, pages = {1971-1976}, abstract = {

Magnetic materials having competing, i.e., frustrated, interactions can display magnetism prolific in intricate structures, discrete jumps, plateaus, and exotic spin states with increasing applied magnetic fields. When the associated elastic energy cost is not too expensive, this high potential can be enhanced by the existence of an omnipresent magnetoelastic coupling. Here we report experimental and theoretical evidence of a nonnegligible magnetoelastic coupling in one of these fascinating materials, SrCu2(BO3)2 (SCBO). First, using pulsed-field transversal and longitudinal magnetostriction measurements we show that its physical dimensions, indeed, mimic closely its unusually rich field-induced magnetism. Second, using density functional-based calculations we find that the driving force behind the magnetoelastic coupling is the CuOCu^ superexchange angle that, due to the orthogonal Cu2+ dimers acting as pantographs, can shrink significantly (0.44\%) with minute (0.01\%) variations in the lattice parameters. With this original approach we also find a reduction of \∼10\% in the intradimer exchange integral J, enough to make predictions for the highly magnetized states and the effects of applied pressure on SCBO.

}, doi = {10.1073/pnas.1421414112}, author = {Guillaume Radtke and Andres Sa{\`u}l and Dabkowska, Hanna A. and Salamon, Myron B. and Jaime, Marcelo} } @article {651, title = {Density functional approach for the magnetism of}, journal = {Physical Review B}, volume = {89}, year = {2014}, month = {Mar-01-2014}, abstract = {

Density functional calculations have been carried out to investigate the microscopic origin of the magnetic properties of \β-TeVO4. Two different approaches, based either on a perturbative treatment of the multiorbital Hubbard model in the strongly correlated limit or on the calculation of supercell total energy differences, have been employed to evaluate magnetic couplings in this compound. The picture provided by these two approaches is that of weakly coupled frustrated chains with ferromagnetic nearest-neighbor and antiferromagnetic second-nearest-neighbor couplings. These results, differing substantially from previous reports, should motivate further experimental investigations of the magnetic properties of this compound.

}, issn = {1098-0121}, doi = {10.1103/PhysRevB.89.104414}, url = {https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.89.104414}, author = {Andres Sa{\`u}l and Guillaume Radtke} } @article {62, title = {A density functional approach of the magnetism of b-TeVO4}, journal = {Phys. Rev. B.}, volume = {89}, year = {2014}, month = {Mar-2014}, chapter = {104414}, abstract = {

Density functional calculations have been carried out to investigate the microscopic origin of the magnetic properties of
\β-TeVO4. Two different approaches, based either on a perturbative treatment of the multiorbital Hubbard model in the strongly correlated limit or on the calculation of supercell total energy differences, have been employed to evaluate magnetic couplings in this compound. The picture provided by these two approaches is that of weakly coupled frustrated chains with ferromagnetic nearest-neighbor and antiferromagnetic second-nearest-neighbor couplings. These results, differing substantially from previous reports, should motivate further experimental investigations of the magnetic properties of this compound.

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}, doi = {10.1103/PhysRevB.89.104414}, author = {Andres Sa{\`u}l and Guillaume Radtke} }