2007/01/10 by Vincent Hardy, Delphine Flahaut, Raymond Fresard +2 · 1 citation
Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Condensed Matter Physics #Magnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materials #Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism #cond-mat.mtrl-sci #cond-mat.str-el
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/0953-8984/19/14/145229
published as J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 19, 145229 (2007). · 10 pages, 5 figures
arxiv created 2007/01/10 · openalex publication_date 2007/03/23 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30
Ca 3 Co 2 O 6 is a system exhibiting a series of fascinating properties, including magnetization plateaus and remarkably slow dynamics at low- T . These properties are intimately related to the geometrical frustration, which results from a particular combination of features: (i) the chains are arranged on a triangular lattice; (ii) there is a large uniaxial anisotropy; (iii) the intrachain and interchain couplings are ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic, respectively. The uniaxial anisotropy is thus an issue of crucial importance for the analysis of the physical properties of Ca 3 Co 2 O 6 . However, it turns out that no precise investigation of this magnetic anisotropy has been performed so far. On the basis of susceptibility data directly recorded on single crystals, the present study reports on quantitative information about the anisotropy of Ca 3 Co 2 O 6 .