1 Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan

2 NYU-ECNU Institute of Physics, New York University Shanghai China

Publication date: Jul 02, 2019

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Project abstract: Frustrated magnets are one class of fascinating materials that host many intriguing phases such as spin ice, spin liquid and complex long-range magnetic orderings at low temperatures. In this work we use first-principles calculations to find that in a wide range of magnetically frustrated oxides, at zero temperature a number of non-collinear magnetic orderings are more stable than the type-I collinear ordering that is observed at finite temperatures. The emergence of non-collinear orderings in those complex oxides is due to higher-order exchange interactions that originate from second-row and third-row transition metal elements. This implies a collinear-to-noncollinear spin transition at sufficiently low temperatures in those frustrated complex oxides. Furthermore, we find that in a particular oxide Ba2YOsO6, experimentally feasible uniaxial strain can tune the material between two different non-collinear magnetic orderings. Our work predicts new non- collinear magnetic orderings in frustrated complex oxides at very low temperatures and provides a mechanical route to tuning complex non-collinear magnetic orderings in those materials. About this entry: We provide the input files of our DFT calculations for the studied complex oxides. The structures in POSCAR format and the INCAR files for all stabilized magnetic orderings in our study are all included. These files can be directly used into DFT calculations with VASP.

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