Spin-Flop Transition and Magnetocaloric Effect through Disconnected Magnetic Blocks in Co$^{III}$ /Co$^{IV}$ Oxybromides

Olivier Toulemonde (1) , Pascal Roussel (2) , Olivier Isnard (3) , G. Andre (4) , Olivier Mentre (2)

1 ICMCB - Institut de Chimie de la Matière Condensée de Bordeaux
2 UCCS - Unité de Catalyse et Chimie du Solide - UMR 8181
3 NEEL - MRS - Matériaux, Rayonnements, Structure
4 LLB - UMR 12 - Laboratoire Léon Brillouin

The magnetic properties of the layered Banþ1ConO3n-1Br (n=5 and 6) oxybromides have been determined by means of magnetization measurements and neutron diffraction under variable magnetic field. For n=6, the magnetic phase diagram has been built on the basis of several features, including the notions of short-range ordering, spin reorientation, and spin-flop transitions. In those compounds, the competition between magnetic exchanges arise from the existence of [Ba2O2Br]- double-layers that separate perovskite 2D-blocks. The latter are dominated by ferromagnetic (FM) intraexchanges while the interblock exchanges are antiferromagnetic (AFM). Interestingly, a perturbation created by an external magnetic field could be on the same order of magnitude than the interblock exchange leading to a complex set of spin reorientations versus H and T. From the point of view of magneto-crystalline anisotropy, theAFMsystem with moments parallel to the c-axis turns into a FM system with moments aligned in the perpendicular (a,b) planes. The magnetic entropy is distributed within at least three phenomena, spread out in a wide range of temperature. Here, the influence of the magneto-crystalline anisotropy on the magnetocaloric effect is unambiguously shown.

Domaines: Science des matériaux [cond-mat.mtrl-sci]

Olivier Toulemonde, Pascal Roussel, Olivier Isnard, G. Andre, Olivier Mentre. Spin-Flop Transition and Magnetocaloric Effect through Disconnected Magnetic Blocks in Co$^{III}$ /Co$^{IV}$ Oxybromides. Chemistry of Materials, 2010, 22 (12), pp.3807-3816. ⟨10.1021/cm100571v⟩. ⟨hal-00968019⟩