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Itinerant A-Type Antiferromagnet Order in Co1/4TaSe2
Published
Author(s)
H. C. Mandujano, Gicela Saucedo Salas, Tianyu Li, Peter Zavalij, Alicia Manjon-Sanz, Nicholas Butch, Efrain Rodriguez
Abstract
We present the magnetic behavior and resulting transport properties of TaSe2 when intercalated by magnetically active cobalt cations. Acting as the layered host, TaSe2 is a transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) that adopts the 2H-polytype. We find through our single crystal and powder diffraction studies that we can prepare the stoichiometry Co1/4TaSe2, which crystallizes in the centrosymmetric space group P63/mmc. From magnetic susceptibility and x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy measurements, we find a transition consistent with antiferromagnetic order below the temperature TN = 173 K and Co2+ in the high-spin state. Neutron powder diffraction and specific heat measurements, however, point to a much smaller than anticipated ordered moment in this sample. From the neutron results, the magnetic structure can be described as an A-type antiferromagnet with an ordered moment size of 1.35(11) μB per Co cation. The direction of the moments is all long the c axis, which is consistent with the magnetization and susceptibility studies showing this direction to be the easy axis. Interestingly, we find that a weak and subtle ferromagnetic component appears to exist along the ab plane of the Co1/4TaSe2 crystals. We place the results of this work in the context of other magnetic-ion intercalated TMDs, especially those of Ta and Nb.
Mandujano, H.
, Saucedo Salas, G.
, Li, T.
, Zavalij, P.
, Manjon-Sanz, A.
, Butch, N.
and Rodriguez, E.
(2024),
Itinerant A-Type Antiferromagnet Order in Co1/4TaSe2, Physical Review B, [online], https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.110.144420, https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=958030
(Accessed October 9, 2025)