A Local Magnetic Study of Valence Bond Glass Formation in Ba2LuMoO6

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We have identified a new material Ba2LuMoO6 where cation ordering between Lu and Mo leads to a distribution of S=1/2 Mo5+ cations on the lattice points of a regular cubic fcc lattice. Dc magnetic susceptibility measurements and neutron diffraction data indicate the absence of long range magnetic ordering to 2 K despite the presence of strong antiferromagnetic interactions. The observed loss of paramagnetic moment on cooling below 50 K and the presence of a frequency dependent magnetic transition in the ac susceptibility all suggest the formation of a valence bond glass. We request muon beamtime to confirm this assignment and to probe this exotic electronic state as a function of temperature between 2K and 120K.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.42593373
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/42593373
Provenance
Creator Dr Fiona Coomer; Professor Eddie Cussen
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2016
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 2013-10-21T23:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2013-10-22T23:00:00Z