Search for the spin liquid phase in terbium gallium garnet.

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Usually, magnetic materials can be understood by imagining them as orderly rows of communicating, atomic-sized bar magnets (or "spins") which organize themselves into a favorable state (e.g. if they choose to be all parallel, the material is magnetized). In a frustrated material, the geometric arrangement of atoms prevents this, and the atomic magnets remain fluctuating. However, they still self-organize (or correlate) locally, with their close neighbors. The size and shape of these regions, which can be measured by neutron scattering, provide strong clues about the frustrated state. Because local correlations are also a property of liquids, these magnets are called spin liquids. Tb3Ga5O12 may host an interesting type of spin liquid in which both magnetic and vibrational fluctuations play a role. We propose to use WISH to search for signs of the associated magnetic correlations.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.73945271
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/73945271
Provenance
Creator Dr Gøran Nilsen; Dr Pascal Manuel; Dr Tom Fennell; Mr Rafal Wawrzynczak
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2019
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 2016-06-30T08:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2016-07-01T08:00:00Z