Spin liquid properties of the S=1/2 triangular lattice system Li2ZnMo3O8

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Thermal, magnetic, neutron and muSR measurements all point towards a gapless or almost gapless spin liquid ground state for the triangular lattice spin system of S=1/2 Mo3 clusters in the compound Li2ZnMo3O8. It is suggested that 2/3 of the spins form a honeycomb valence bond solid (VBS) below 100 K with a finite spin gap, leaving the remaining 1/3 of the spins to form a gapless triangular lattice spin liquid with an enlarged lattice constant and weakened coupling via the VBS sites. New muon measurements will explore the boundary between spin liquid and magnetic phases and will be used to extract critical parameters to test against existing models. A search will also be made for the signature of 2D diffusive motion of spin excitations, a feature that was seen in several other triangular lattice spin liquids previously studied with muons, giving further information about the criticality.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.58447161
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/58447161
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Creator Dr Peter Baker; Dr Francis Pratt; Professor Tom Lancaster; Miss Francesca Foronda; Professor Tyrel McQueen; Professor Stephen Blundell
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2018
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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Discipline Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2015-04-21T08:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2015-04-25T08:00:00Z