Multiple field-induced phases in the frustrated triangular magnet Cs3Fe2Br9
Abstract
The recently discovered material Cs3Fe2Br9 contains Fe2Br9 bi-octahedra forming triangular layers with hexagonal stacking along the c axis. In contrast to isostructural Cr-based compounds, the zero-field ground state is not a nonmagnetic S=0 singlet-dimer state. Instead, the Fe2Br9 bi-octahedra host semiclassical S=5/2 Fe3+ spins with a pronounced easy-axis anisotropy along c and interestingly, the intra-dimer spins are ordered ferromagnetically. The high degree of magnetic frustration due to (various) competing intra- and inter-dimer couplings leads to a surprisingly rich magnetic phase diagram. Already the zero-field ground state is reached via an intermediate phase, and the high-field magnetization and thermal expansion data for H c identify ten different ordered phases. Among them are phases with constant magnetization of 1/3, respectively 1/2 of the saturation value, and several transitions are strongly hysteretic with pronounced length changes reflecting strong magnetoelastic coupling.
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