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Dzyaloshinsky-Moriya antisymmetric exchange coupling in cuprates: Oxygen effects

A. S. Moskvin

cond-mat.str-elarXiv:cond-mat/0610537

Abstract

We revisit a problem of Dzyaloshinsky-Moriya antisymmetric exchange coupling for a single bond in cuprates specifying the local spin-orbital contributions to Dzyaloshinsky vector focusing on the oxygen term. The Dzyaloshinsky vector and respective weak ferromagnetic moment is shown to be a superposition of comparable and, sometimes, competing local Cu and O contributions. The intermediate oxygen 17O Knight shift is shown to be an effective tool to inspect the effects of Dzyaloshinsky-Moriya coupling in an external magnetic field. We predict the effect of strong oxygen weak antiferromagnetism in edge-shared CuO2 chains due to uncompensated oxygen Dzyaloshinsky vectors. Finally, we revisit the effects of symmetric spin anisotropy, in particular, those directly induced by Dzyaloshinsky-Moriya coupling.

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