Are magnetic excitations in the Yb based pyrochlores really gapless?

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A recent neutron study of a powder sample attests a splayed ferromagnetic structure for Yb2Ti2O7. However in the same work the authors report gapless magnetic excitations even though a Hamiltonian deduced from spin wave excitations under applied magnetic fields supports gapped excitations and a ferromagnetic ground state. Given that the obtained magnetic order parameter in this sample strangely does not respond to the sharp heat capacity anomaly, questions about the quality of this sample as well as the interpretation of gapless magnetic excitations as a universal feature for the Yb based pyrochlores have been raised. We believe we have obtained a proper sample that can be used to resolve huge controversy regarding magnetic excitations of Yb2Ti2O7 at low temperatures by inelastic neutron scattering in LET. For comparison, we propose also the same study on a mysterious sibling, Yb2Ir2O7.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.84778683
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/84778683
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Creator Dr Erxi Feng; Dr Viviane Pecanha Antonio; Dr Yixi Su; Dr Franz Demmel
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2020
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 2017-03-16T09:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2017-03-19T09:00:00Z