Structural analysis of honeycomb ruthenates - the relationship between the dimer formation and layer stacking pattern

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Honeycomb ruthenates (Ru4+, 4d4) are the potential playground for exotic magnetism associated with strong spin-orbit coupling. However, the real honeycomb ruthenate Li2RuO3 shows dimerization of Ru atoms where spin and orbital degrees of freedom are quenched and spin-orbit coupling does not work. To suppress the dimerization, we employed ion-exchange technique on Li2RuO3 and obtained new materials such as Cu2RuO3 and H-Li2RuO3. Cu2RuO3 does not show dimerization and displays a Van Vleck-like magnetic susceptibility as expected for d4 system with spin-orbit coupling. The proton exchanged H-Li2RuO3 was found to be non-magnetic as in Li2RuO3, suggesting the presence of dimerization. To understand the relationship between the electronic ground state and crystal structure, we will perform structural analyses with high-resolution powder neutron diffractions on the new honeycomb ruthenates.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.RB1910256-2
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/105600502
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Creator Dr Tomohiro Takayama; Dr Alexandra Gibbs; Dr Aleks Krajewska; Professor Hidenori Takagi
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2022
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Chemistry; Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2019-12-03T08:30:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2019-12-04T08:31:17Z