Determination of low temperature spin correlations of terbium galliumgarnet(Tb3Ga5O12).

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Magnetic frustration preventing the simultaneous satisfaction of all magnetic interactions in a system is well known as a contributor to unconventional behavior in spin systems. Rare-earth garnet lattices, formed of two interpenetrating half-garnet lattices, which form a twisting 3d arrangement of corner sharing triangles, are promising model systems for investigation of the effects of magnetic frustration. Terbium gallium garnet (TGG/Tb3Ga5O12) is well known as an advanced material - due to its high Verdet constant it is used as a Faraday rotator for optical applications - but its low temperature magnetism has been relatively little studied. TGG is known to undergo a transition to an antiferromagnetic phase at TN=0.35 K, but the relatively large Curie-Weiss temperature (-8.6 K) strongly implies the existence of a correlated but disordered regime for TN<T<8.6 K, which has never been investigated experimentally. We propose to use D7 to search for a correlated spin liquid phase just above the ordering temperature TN, and to gain a good understanding of its spin correlations.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5291/ILL-DATA.5-42-418
Metadata Access https://data.ill.fr/openaire/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=10.5291/ILL-DATA.5-42-418
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Creator Wildes, Andrew; Nilsen, Goran; Boehm, Martin; Kenzelmann, Michel; Wawrzynczak, Rafal; Fennell, Tom
Publisher Institut Laue-Langevin
Publication Year 2016
Rights OpenAccess; info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Resource Type Dataset
Size 12 GB
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Discipline Particles, Nuclei and Fields