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Condensed Matter > Strongly Correlated Electrons

Title: Observation of Mermin-Wagner behavior in LaFeO$_3$/SrTiO$_3$ superlattices

Abstract: Two-dimensional magnetic materials attract a lot of attention since they potentially exhibit new magnetic properties due to, e.g., strongly enhanced spin fluctuations. However, the suppression of the long-range magnetic order in two dimensions due to long-wavelength spin fluctuations, as suggested by the Mermin-Wagner theorem, has been questioned for finite-size laboratory samples. Here we study the magnetic properties of a dimensional crossover in superlattices composed of the antiferromagnetic LaFeO$_3$ and SrTiO$_3$ that, thanks to their large lateral size, allowed examination using a sensitive magnetic probe - muon spin rotation spectroscopy. We show that the iron electronic moments in superlattices with 3 and 2 monolayers of LaFeO$_3$ exhibit a static antiferromagnetic order. In contrast, in the superlattices with single LaFeO$_3$ monolayer, the moments do not order and fluctuate to the lowest measured temperature as expected from the Mermin-Wagner theorem. Our work shows how dimensionality can be used to tune the magnetic properties of ultrathin films.
Subjects: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el); Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
Cite as: arXiv:2405.04293 [cond-mat.str-el]
  (or arXiv:2405.04293v1 [cond-mat.str-el] for this version)

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From: Michal Kiaba [view email]
[v1] Tue, 7 May 2024 13:09:30 GMT (6732kb)

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