Magnetic ground state of the candidate quantum ice material Pr2Sn2O7

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Quantum spin ice is a novel form of matter in which the spins remain dynamic even at absolute zero due to quantum fluctuations. The requirements on the single-ion wavefunction for quantum ice behaviour are quite stringent. We propose to determine the single-ion ground state in the candidate quantum ice compound Pr2Sn2O7. We will achieve this by measuring the complete crystal field excitation spectrum and using advanced modeling to fit the spectrum to a crystal field Hamiltonian. The measurement will be made on a powder sample with several different incident energies and temperatures.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24089865
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24089865
Provenance
Creator Dr Nic Shannon; Mr Owen Benton; Professor Andrew Boothroyd; Professor Radu Coldea; Dr Andrew Princep; Dr Yanfeng Guo; Dr Alice Taylor; Mr Stephen Gaw
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2015
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 2012-11-22T10:15:55Z
Temporal Coverage End 2012-11-24T10:39:02Z