Magnetic order in a pyrochlore iridate

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Iridium oxides are of interest because many novel magnetic phases have been predicted in crystals, depending on the geometry of the crystal lattice. Our proposal concerns one such iridium oxide, Yb2Ir2O7, having a crystal structure known as the pyrochlore structure, in which the Ir ions form networks of connected tetrahedra. Our aim is to use neutron diffraction to determine the magnetic structures that occurs in these materials at low temperatures. In a previous experiment we determined that the iridium magnetic moments point either all in or all out of the tetrahedral, which means it is possible that iridates in this family could exhibit a novel topological phase called a Weyl semi-metal. In this proposal our focus is on the Yb moments. We wish to find out how they order at very low temperature, and how this order couples to the iridium magnetic moments.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.98028052
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/98028052
Provenance
Creator Dr Dharmalingan Prabhakaran; Professor Andrew Boothroyd; Dr Pascal Manuel; Dr Henrik Jacobsen; Dr Jian Rui Soh
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2021
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 2018-10-23T07:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2018-10-24T08:48:11Z