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The pyrochlore Eu$_2$Ir$_2$O$_7$ has recently attracted significant attention as a candidate Weyl semimetal. The previous reports on this compound unanimously show a thermally induced metal to insulator (MI) transition, concomitant with antiferromagnetic (AFM) long-range ordering of the Ir-moments below T$_textit{N} sim $120 K. However, there are contradictory reports concerning the slope d$rho/$dT of the resistivity plots ($rho$) in the metallic state above the metal-insulator (MI) transition, and the value of $rho$ in the insulating state, both of which show significant sample dependence. Here, we explore this issue by investigating six different Eu$_2$Ir$_2$O$_7$ samples with slightly varying Eu:Ir ratio. High-resolution synchrotron powder diffraction are done to probe minor variations in the cell parameters of the various Eu$_2$Ir$_2$O$_7$ samples investigated here. Specific heat (C$ _p $) and magnetic susceptibility of all the samples showed long-range antiferromagnetic ordering upon cooling below T$ _textit{N} sim $120 K. The transitions are, however, found to be smeared out for the off-stoichiometric samples. We show that the sign of d$rho/$dT above the metal-insulator (MI) transition is highly sensitive to the unit cell length, which, in turn, depends on the level of Eu-stuffing at the Ir-site. Samples with composition close to the ideal stoichiometry (Eu : Ir $ = $ 1) showed a change of sign of d$rho/$dT from negative to positive upon cooling below a certain temperature T $^*$ $>$ T$_textit{MI}$. With increasing Eu-stuffing T$ ^* $ decreased until a negative d$rho/$dT persisted without any sign change down to T$_textit{MI}$.
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We report a combined muon spin relaxation/rotation, bulk magnetization, neutron scattering, and transport study of the electronic properties of the pyrochlore iridate Nd2Ir2O7. We observe the onset of strongly hysteretic behavior in the temperature dependent magnetization below 120 K, and an abrupt increase in the temperature dependent resistivity below 8 K. Zero field muon spin relaxation measurements show that the hysteretic magnetization is driven by a transition to a magnetically disordered state, and that below 8 K a complex magnetically ordered ground state sets in, as evidenced by the onset of heavily damped spontaneous muon precession. Our measurements point toward the absence of a true metal-to-insulator phase transition in this material and suggest that Nd2Ir2O7 lies either within or on the metallic side of the boundary of the Dirac semimetal regime within its topological phase diagram.
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There are reasons to believe that the ground state of the magnetic rare earth pyrochlore Yb$_2$Ti$_2$O$_7$ is on the boundary between competing ground states. We have carried out $mathrm{textit{ab initio}}$ density functional calculations to determine the most stable chemical formula as a function of the oxygen chemical potential and the likely location of the oxygen atoms in the unit cell of the stuffed system. We find that it is energetically favorable in the stuffed crystal (with an Yb replacement on a Ti site) to contain oxygen vacancies which dope the Yb 4$mathrm{textit{f}}$ orbitals and qualitatively change the electronic properties of the system. In addition, with the inclusion of the contribution of spin-orbit-coupling (SOC) on top of the GGA+U approach, we investigated the electronic structure and the magnetic moments of the most stable stuffed system. In our determined stuffed structure the valence bands as compared to those of the pure system are pushed down and a change in hybridization between the O 2$mathrm{textit{p}}$ orbitals and the metal ion states is found. Our first-principle findings should form a foundation for effective models describing the low-temperature properties of this material whose true ground state remains controversial.
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