Determination of the magnetic structure in the coupled trimer spin system Ba4NbMn3O12

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When isolated spin clusters are weakly coupled to each other, zero-dimensional quantum and three-dimensional collective magnetism concomitantly occur. This is envisioned in the low-lying magnetic excitations, including transverse and longitudinal magnon modes along with gapped localized excitations. The newly discovered hexagonal perovskite Ba4NbMn3O12 constitutes Mn3O12 trimers made of three face-sharing MnO6 octahedra, with the trimers arranged in triangular planes. Ba4NbMn3O12 shows a ferromagnetic type order (possible ferrimagnetic order) at 42 K, yet with a small negative Curie-Weiss temperature of -4 K. In addition, the local spin alignment with the individual trimers occurs at much higher temperatures than the 3D long-range order. This energy hierarchy renders Ba4NbMn3O12 an attracting platform to explore a crossover of molecular magnetism to more collective behavior.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.RB1910345-1
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/101635122
Provenance
Creator Dr Suheon Lee; Dr Jhuma Sannigrahi; Dr Dmitry Khalyavin; Dr Devashi Adroja; Professor KwangYong Choi
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 Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2019-03-23T08:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2019-03-24T09:06:52Z