Tuning a 2D square lattice magnet into the bond-nematic quantum critical region

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Frustrated square-lattice antiferromagnets with competing interactions are prototypical model systems to study complex magnetic correlations. For the generalised model including ferromagnetic interactions a new bond-nematic phase is predicted by theory. We have been able to synthesize the compound BaCdVO(PO4)2 and recently proved that it lies right on the border of a columnar antiferromagnetic phase with the spin-nematic phase. Theory predicts a low energy excitation mode, accessible by inelastic neutron scattering. Observation of this would be strong evidence for the existence of the long sought bond-nematic region. Here we propose to drive this material right inside the spin-nematic phase by an externally applied magnetic field. Temperatures below TN = 1K and magnetic fields up to Hc = 5 T are required, together with the excellent low-energy intensity and resolution provided by LET.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.RB1910002-1
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/101143439
Provenance
Creator Dr Markos Skoulatos; Dr Rob Bewley; Dr Andrew Smerald; Dr Alexandre Bertin
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2022
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2019-03-01T10:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2019-03-04T10:00:00Z