Pressure-induced structural and magnetic transitions in honeycomb ruthenate Ag3LiRu2O6

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Honeycomb ruthenates (Ru4+, 4d4) with strong spin-orbit coupling are expected to host unconventional magnetic ground state owing to a spin-orbital-entangled Jeff = 0 state. The hitherto-known honeycomb ruthenate Li2RuO3 is, however, known to display a spin-singlet dimerization where spin-orbit coupling is inactive. By using soft-chemical reaction, we obtained an Ag-intercalated Ag3LiRu2O6 which does not show dimerization of Ru atoms. Ag3LiRu2O6 shows a Van-Vleck-like paramagnetic susceptibility as expected for Jeff = 0 states. By applying pressure of ~0.5 GPa, Ag3LiRu2O6 shows a change of magnetic ground state likely associated with modified RuO6 distortion. Furthermore, signatures of pressure-induced dimerization have been seen at a higher pressure in NMR and XRD. To reveal the pressure-induced phase transitions, we propose high-pressure neutron diffraction on Ag3LiRu2O6 on PEARL.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.RB1920241-1
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Creator Dr Aleks Krajewska; Dr Alexandra Gibbs; Dr Craig Bull; Professor Hidenori Takagi; Dr Tomohiro Takayama; Mr Marian Blankenhorn; Dr Graham McNally
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2022
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Discipline Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2019-10-07T07:30:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2019-11-23T07:45:53Z