Highly sensitive spin-flop transition in antiferromagnetic van der Waals material MPS3 (M = Ni and Mn)

Recent developments in two-dimensional (2D) magnetism have motivated the search for van der Waals (vdW) magnetic materials to explore magnetic phenomena in the 2D limit. Metal thiophosphates, MPX3, are a class of magnetic vdW materials with antiferromagnetic ordering persisting down to the atomicall...

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Published in:Physical review materials 2021-06, Vol.5 (6)
Main Authors: Basnet, Rabindra, Wegner, Aaron, Pandey, Krishna, Storment, Stephen, Hu, Jin
Format: Article
Language:English
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CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY
Magnetic anisotropy
Magnetic order
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Summary:Recent developments in two-dimensional (2D) magnetism have motivated the search for van der Waals (vdW) magnetic materials to explore magnetic phenomena in the 2D limit. Metal thiophosphates, MPX3, are a class of magnetic vdW materials with antiferromagnetic ordering persisting down to the atomically thin limit. The magnetism in this material family has been found to be highly dependent on the choice of transition metal M. In this paper, we have synthesized the intermediate compounds Ni1–xMnxPS3 (0 ≤ x ≤ 1) and investigated their magnetic properties. Our study reveals that the variation of Ni and Mn content in Ni1–xMnxPS3 can efficiently tune the spin-flop transition, likely due to the modulation of the magnetic anisotropy. Such effective tuning offers a promising candidate to engineer 2D magnetism for future device applications.
ISSN:2475-9953
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.5.064413