Tuning of spin-orbit coupling in chiral molecule-incorporated two-dimensional organic-inorganic hybrid perovskite copper halides with ferromagnetic exchange interactions

Taniguchi, Koji*; Huang, P.-J.*; Sagayama, Hajime*; Kiyanagi, Ryoji  ; Oishi, Kazuki*; Kito, Shunsuke*; Nakamura, Yuiga*; Miyasaka, Hitoshi*

Leveraging the flexible material designability of organic-inorganic hybrid systems, spatial inversion symmetry breaking and spin-orbit coupling (SOC) were simultaneously controlled in a series of two-dimensional organic-inorganic hybrid perovskite (2D-OIHP) copper halides with ferromagnetic exchange interaction (FMI). In chiral molecule-incorporated 2D-OIHP copper halides, an increase in Br component over Cl component at halogen sites leads to systematic variations in magnetic phase diagrams owing to the competition between the FMI and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction induced by the SOC. The crucial role of noncentrosymmetry in the competition for the magnetic interactions was confirmed by comparing the magnetic phase diagrams of chiral and achiral 2D-OIHP copper bromides.