title: Competition between the Direct Exchange Interaction and Superexchange Interaction in Layered Compounds LiCrSe2, LiCrTe2, and NaCrTe2 with a Triangular Lattice.
abstract: Physical properties of new S = 3/2 triangular-lattice compounds LiCrSe2, LiCrTe2, and NaCrTe2 have been investigated by X-ray diffraction and magnetic measurements. These compounds crystallize in the ordered NiAs-type structure, where alkali metal ions and Cr atoms stack alternately. Despite their isomorphic structures, magnetic properties of these three compounds are different; NaCrTe2 has an A-type spin structure with ferromagnetic layers, LiCrTe2 is likely to exhibit a helical spin structure, and LiCrSe2 shows a first-order-like phase transition from the paramagnetic trigonal phase to the antiferromagnetic monoclinic phase. In these compounds and the other chromium chalcogenides with a triangular lattice, we found a general relationship between the Curie-Weiss temperature and magnetic structures. This relation indicates that the competition between the antiferromagnetic direct d-d exchange interaction and the ferromagnetic superexchange interaction plays an important role in determining the ground state of chromium chalcogenides.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University , Kyoto 606-8502, Japan.
authors.forename: Shintaro
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kobayashi
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University , Kyoto 606-8502, Japan.
authors.forename: Hiroaki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ueda
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University , Kyoto 606-8502, Japan.
authors.forename: Chishiro
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Michioka
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University , Kyoto 606-8502, Japan.|Research Center for Low Temperature and Materials Sciences, Kyoto University , Kyoto 606-8501, Japan.
authors.forename: Kazuyoshi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yoshimura