title: Strong magnetic frustration and anti-site disorder causing spin-glass behavior in honeycomb Li2RhO3.
abstract: With large spin-orbit coupling, the electron configuration in d-metal oxides is prone to highly anisotropic exchange interactions and exotic magnetic properties. In 5d(5) iridates, given the existing variety of crystal structures, the magnetic anisotropy can be tuned from antisymmetric to symmetric Kitaev-type, with interaction strengths that outsize the isotropic terms. By many-body electronic-structure calculations we here address the nature of the magnetic exchange and the intriguing spin-glass behavior of Li2RhO3, a 4d(5) honeycomb oxide. For pristine crystals without Rh-Li site inversion, we predict a dimerized ground state as in the isostructural 5d(5) iridate Li2IrO3, with triplet spin dimers effectively placed on a frustrated triangular lattice. With Rh-Li anti-site disorder, we explain the observed spin-glass phase as a superposition of different, nearly degenerate symmetry-broken configurations.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Theoretical Solid State Physics, IFW Dresden, Helmholtzstr. 20, 01069 Dresden, Germany.
authors.forename: Vamshi M
authors.initials: VM
authors.lastname: Katukuri
authors.affiliation: Institute for Theoretical Solid State Physics, IFW Dresden, Helmholtzstr. 20, 01069 Dresden, Germany.
authors.forename: Satoshi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nishimoto
authors.affiliation: Institute for Theoretical Solid State Physics, IFW Dresden, Helmholtzstr. 20, 01069 Dresden, Germany.
authors.forename: Ioannis
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Rousochatzakis
authors.affiliation: Institute for Theoretical Chemistry, Universität Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 55, 70550 Stuttgart, Germany.
authors.forename: Hermann
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Stoll
authors.affiliation: Institute for Theoretical Solid State Physics, IFW Dresden, Helmholtzstr. 20, 01069 Dresden, Germany.
authors.forename: Jeroen
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: van den Brink
authors.affiliation: Institute for Theoretical Solid State Physics, IFW Dresden, Helmholtzstr. 20, 01069 Dresden, Germany.
authors.forename: Liviu
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Hozoi