Abstract
Effects of Cu-doping on the structural and magnetic properties of spin chain compound MnV2O6 have been investigated through experimental and theoretical techniques. Significant change in magnetic properties with Cu-doping have been observed. Increasing defects and disorders with Cu-doping which often results in a breaking of infinite chains along b-axis into finite segments play pivotal role towards the decrease in the intrachain exchange interaction. Defects, disorders and hence the chain breaking also affects the magnetic susceptibility of the compound and an increasing Curie tail has been observed. In addition, increasing contribution of orbital moment has been observed with doping. Observation of metamagnetism in both pure and doped compounds is the another key feature observed. First-principles electronic structure calculations have been employed to understand the observed increase in the effective magnetic moment as well as metamagnetism in both pure and doped system.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 165995 |
| Journal | Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials |
| Volume | 497 |
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| State | Published - 1 Mar 2020 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2019 Elsevier B.V.
Funding
NK and SD would like to thank UGC and CSIR, India for their research fellowship respectively. AD would like to thank UGC, India for research fellowship. PD is thankful to DST, India for the financial support through Women Scientist Project (project no: SR/WOS-A/PM-24/2017). Authors would like to thank Department of Science and Technology, India for low temperature and high magnetic field facilities at UGC-DAE Consortium for Scientific Research, Kolkata Centre (project no: IR/S2/PU-06/2006). Authors would also like to thank Mr. Anish Karmahapatra for helping us in carrying out XRD measurements at Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, India. NK and SD would like to thank UGC and CSIR, India for their research fellowship respectively. AD would like to thank UGC, India for research fellowship. PD is thankful to DST , India for the financial support through Women Scientist Project (project no: SR/WOS-A/PM-24/2017 ). Authors would like to thank Department of Science and Technology, India for low temperature and high magnetic field facilities at UGC-DAE Consortium for Scientific Research, Kolkata Centre (project no: IR/S2/PU-06/2006). Authors would also like to thank Mr. Anish Karmahapatra for helping us in carrying out XRD measurements at Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, India.
| Funders | Funder number |
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| Kolkata Centre | IR/S2/PU-06/2006 |
| Women Scientist Project | SR/WOS-A/PM-24/2017 |
| Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology, India | |
| Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India | |
| University Grants Committee | |
| Department of Science and Technology, Government of Kerala |