Frustrated Magnetism in Mott Insulating (V_{1−x}Cr_{x})_{2}O_{3}

V 2 O 3 famously features all four combinations of paramagnetic versus antiferromagnetic and metallic versus insulating states of matter in response to percent-level doping, pressure in the GPa range, and temperature below 300 K. Using time-of-flight neutron spectroscopy combined with density functional theory calculations of magnetic interactions, we have mapped and analyzed the inelastic magnetic neutron scattering cross section over a wide range of energy and momentum transfer in the chromium-stabilized antiferromagnetic and paramagnetic insulating phases.Our results reveal an important magnetic frustration and degeneracy of the paramagnetic insulating phase which is relieved by the rhombohedral-to-monoclinic transition at T N ¼ 185 K.This leads to the recognition that magnetic frustration is an inherent property of the paramagnetic phase in ðV 1-x Cr x Þ 2 O 3 and plays a key role in suppressing the magnetic long-rangeordering temperature and exposing a large phase space for the paramagnetic Mott metal-insulator transition to occur.

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