Nanoscale Phase Separation of Incommensurate and Quasi-Commensurate Spin Stripes in Low Temperature Spin Glass of La_2−xSr_xNiO₄

Abstract

While spin striped phases in La2−xSrxNiO4+y for 0.25 50 K) to a low temperature phase (T < 50 K). We have identified quasi-commensurate spin stripe puddles in the ordered phase at 50 < T < 70 K, while the low temperature spin glassy phase presents a nanoscale phase separation of T = 30 K, with the coexistence of quasi-commensurate and incommensurate spin stripe puddles assigned to the interplay of quantum frustration and strong electronic correlations.

Keywords

• quantum complex materials
• incommensurate and commensurate superlattice
• phase separation
• spatial statistics