Magnetic diffuse scattering in thenew Gd-pyrochlore antiferromagnet - Gd2Pt2O7

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We propose to characterise the magnetic ground state structure and the paramagnetic diffuse scattering in a newly synthesised (isotopically enriched) Gd-pyrochlore sample, Gd2Pt2O7. This displays a strong 1st order anomaly in the heat capacity at low temperatures (1.6K) that is consistent with a transition to a "Palmer-Chalker" state, and with a gapped excitation spectrum. Orbital chemistry associated with the Pt ions leads to possible new exchange pathways in this system, which are not present in the stannate or the titanate Gd-pyrochlores. Measurements of the diffuse scattering in the paramagnetic regime will allow us to test this hypothesis, and extract the dominant exchanges. We ask for 5 days on D7 to complete this study.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.5291/ILL-DATA.5-53-278
Metadata Access https://data.ill.fr/openaire/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=10.5291/ILL-DATA.5-53-278
Provenance
Creator Wildes, Andrew; Gardner, Jason; Stewart, John Ross; Paddison, Joseph; Mangin-Thro, Lucile; Welch, Philip
Publisher Institut Laue-Langevin
Publication Year 2018
Rights OpenAccess; info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
OpenAccess true
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Resource Type Dataset
Size 2 GB
Version 1
Discipline Particles, Nuclei and Fields