Spin correlations of a triangular-lattice quantum-spin-liquid candidate

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A quantum spin liquid (QSL) shows no magnetic order down to zero temperature but the spins are highly entangled. More and more interests are attracted to 2D spin-1/2 triangular-lattice QSL systems with strong spin-orbital coupling including YbMgGaO4, in which our neutron scattering measurements have revealed dispersive spinon excitations with a clear upper excitation edge. Here, we propose to carry out µSR measurements on its isostructural compound TmMgGaO4 single crystals, which shows stronger exchange coupling and non-Kramer’s doublet ground state, resulting in a different magnetic picture. We will try to figure out its ground state at low temperature and try to evaluate the spin-spin correlation time from the field dependence of λ. Such measurement will help further understanding the QSL ground state, and the results will be compared with that of YbMgGaO4.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.90604332
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/90604332
Provenance
Creator Dr Pabitra Biswas; Mr Jun Zhao; Mr Yao Shen; Dr Devashi Adroja; Dr Yu Feng
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2021
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 2018-03-16T09:30:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2018-03-20T15:09:20Z