Magnetic excitations and Orbital configuration in the vanadium spinel MgV2O4

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The Vanadium spinels provide ideal systems to study the interactions between spin, lattice and orbital degrees of freedom. The magnetic V3+ ions are antiferromagnetically coupled and located on the vertices a network of corner sharing tetrahedra, which gives rise to three-dimensional geometrical frustration. The two d-electrons of V3+ ion lie in degenerate t2g orbitals introducing an orbital degree of freedom along side the spin, S=1. The V3+ ions interact via direct overlap of their d-orbitals hence the size of the exchange interactions depend strongly on which orbitals are occupied. Ordering of the orbitals would gives rise to a characteristic set of exchange interactions observable in the magnetic excitation spectrum. We propose to study the spin dynamics of a single crystal sample of MgV2O4 in order to determine the exchange couplings giving us an understanding of the V3+ structure.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24072771
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24072771
Provenance
Creator Dr Elisa Wheeler; Dr Bella Lake
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2012
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 2009-09-16T10:01:44Z
Temporal Coverage End 2009-09-22T10:11:27Z