Uniaxial-pressure control of magnetic phase transitions in a frustrated magnet CuFeGaO ( = 0, 0.018)

Nakajima, Taro*; Mitsuda, Setsuo*; Takahashi, Keiichiro*; Yoshitomi, Keisuke*; Masuda, Kazuya*; Kaneko, Chikafumi*; Homma, Yuki*; Kobayashi, Satoru*; Kitazawa, Hideaki*; Kosaka, Masashi*; Aso, Naofumi*; Uwatoko, Yoshiya*; Terada, Noriki*; Wakimoto, Shuichi  ; Takeda, Masayasu  ; Kakurai, Kazuhisa

We have investigated effects of applied uniaxial pressure () on magnetic phase transitions in a triangular lattice antiferromagnet CuFeO (CFO) and a slightly Ga-substituted compound CuFeGaO (CFGO) with = 0.018 by spherical neutron polarimetry. In both of CFO and CFGO ( = 0.018), the application of significantly increases the transition temperature from the paramagnetic phase to a collinear incommensurate antiferromagnetic phase. This suggests that the application of breaks equilateral symmetry of the triangular lattice and partially relieves geometrical spin frustration, which generally suppresses long-range magnetic orderings. Thus we demonstrated that uniaxial pressure can be an effective tool to control magnetic phase transitions in frustrated magnets.