Crystal electric field excitations of pyrochlore quantum antiferromagnet Ce2Sn2O7

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We have recently discovered an exotic magnetic state developing at subKelvin temperatures in the Ce3+ pyrochlore stannate. The spin system of this compound is characterized by a thermally isolated Jz=3/2 Kramers' doublet at low temperature, providing small effective moments on a pyrochlore lattice. We have observed that these spins are characterized by a strong Ising anisotropy. The system does not order down to the lowest investigated temperature (70 mK). However, it develops a correlated regime for temperatures below 1 K, due to antiferromagnetic interactions one order of magnitude larger than the expected ferromagnetic dipolar couplings. We propose to explicitly measure the CEF scheme of Ce2Sn2O7 by inelastic neutron spectroscopy in order to confirm the picture of a thermally isolated Kramers' doublet at low temperature.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.61783341
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/61783341
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Creator Dr Tom Fennell; Dr Romain SIBILLE; Dr Michel Kenzelmann; Dr Toby Perring
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 2015-06-18T07:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2015-06-21T07:00:00Z