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Coexistence of structural and magnetic phases in van der Waals magnet CrI3

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  • Jaume Meseguer-Sánchez

    (Universitat de Valéncia)

  • Catalin Popescu

    (CELLS-ALBA Synchrotron Light Facility)

  • José Luis García-Muñoz

    (Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB), CSIC)

  • Hubertus Luetkens

    (Paul Scherrer Institute)

  • Grigol Taniashvili

    (Tbilisi State University)

  • Efrén Navarro-Moratalla

    (Universitat de Valéncia)

  • Zurab Guguchia

    (Paul Scherrer Institute)

  • Elton J. G. Santos

    (The University of Edinburgh
    The University of Edinburgh)

Abstract

CrI3 has raised as an important system to the emergent field of two-dimensional van der Waals magnetic materials. However, it is still unclear why CrI3 which has a ferromagnetic rhombohedral structure in bulk, changed to anti-ferromagnetic monoclinic at thin layers. Here we show that this behaviour is due to the coexistence of both monoclinic and rhombohedral crystal phases followed by three magnetic transitions at TC1 = 61 K, TC2 = 50 K and TC3 = 25 K. Each transition corresponds to a certain fraction of the magnetically ordered volume as well as monoclinic and rhombohedral proportion. The different phases are continuously accessed as a function of the temperature over a broad range of magnitudes. Our findings suggest that the challenge of understanding the magnetic properties of thin layers CrI3 is in general a coexisting structural-phase problem mediated by the volume-wise competition between magnetic phases already present in bulk.

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  • Jaume Meseguer-Sánchez & Catalin Popescu & José Luis García-Muñoz & Hubertus Luetkens & Grigol Taniashvili & Efrén Navarro-Moratalla & Zurab Guguchia & Elton J. G. Santos, 2021. "Coexistence of structural and magnetic phases in van der Waals magnet CrI3," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 12(1), pages 1-7, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:12:y:2021:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-021-26342-4
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-26342-4
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