Mechanism of basal-plane antiferromagnetism in the spin-orbit driven iridate Ba2Iro4

Physical Review X

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Katukuri, Vamshi M ^a   Yushankhai, Viktor ^a,b   Siurakshina, Liudmila ^b,c   Van Den Brink, Jeroen ^a   Hozoi, Liviu ^a   Rousochatzakis, Ioannis ^a,c  

^a Institute for Theoretical Solid State Physics   (Germany)

^b JOINT INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK KOMPLEXER SYSTEME   (Germany)

Author keywords

Condensed matter physics; Magnetism; Strongly correlated materials

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ANTIFERROMAGNETISM; CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS; MAGNETISM; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS;

INTERLAYER INTERACTIONS; LAYERED CUPRATES; LAYERED MATERIAL; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY CALCULATIONS; QUANTUM-MECHANICAL EFFECTS; SQUARE LATTICES; STRONGLY CORRELATED MATERIALS;

CALCULATIONS;

EID: 84904566498     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21603308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.4.021051     Document Type: Article

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