Bulletin of the American Physical Society
2025 Annual Meeting of the APS Far West Section
Friday–Sunday, October 10–12, 2025; UC Santa Cruz - Stevenson College
Session S00: Posters II: Condensed Matter, Materials Science, Education, Gravitation, Plasma, Nuclear, Climate Science, and Other Physics (10:30AM - 12:00PM)
10:30 AM,
Sunday, October 12, 2025
UC Santa Cruz Stevenson College
Room: Stevenson Campus
Abstract: S00.00011 : Competing Charge and Magnetic Order in Fe1/3NbS2*
Presenter:
Shuzhi Zhu
(Santa Clara University)
Authors:
Shuzhi Zhu
(Santa Clara University)
Jun-Sik Lee
(SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
Vivek Thampy
(SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
Alex Frano
(University of California, San Diego)
Rourav Basak
(University of California, San Diego)
Shan Wu
(Santa Clara University)
FexNbS2 is an antiferromagnetic intercalated transition-metal dichalcogenide (TMD) that exhibits intriguing resistance-switching behavior. Recent neutron scattering studies have revealed highly tunable magnetic phases around x = 1/3 and coupled charge ordering in the x = 0.35. Of particular interest is the x = 1/3 compound, where two magnetic phases coexist. However, the role of Fe in stabilizing charge modulation and its coupling to magnetic ordering at this composition has remained unclear.In this work, we present comprehensive synchrotron X-ray measurements on Fe1/3NbS2 crystal. Using resonant elastic X-ray scattering (REXS) at the Fe L-edge (BL 13-3, SLAC), we investigated the stripe-type magnetic order, and with incident energy Ei = 14 keV (BL 17-2), we probed charge order in the same x= 1/3 crystal. We observe a nonmonotonic temperature dependence of the magnetic peak associated with the stripe phase: the peak develops below the Néel temperature (TN ∼ 45K), reaches maximum intensity near 38 K, and is suppressed upon further cooling, becoming nearly undetectable at 10 K. In contrast, charge order develops at Tc ~ 30 K. The anticorrelated temperature dependence—where charge order strengthens as stripe-type magnetic order disappears—provides direct evidence of competition between charge and magnetic order in Fe1/3NbS2. These results highlight this material as a potential platform for exploring and manipulating coupled spin–charge phenomena.
*This work if funded by the Fox Fellowship at Santa Clara University.
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