muSR study of a pi-electron S = ½ candidate quantum spin-liquid state in an ionic polyaromatic hydrocarbon (PAH)

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Molecular solids whose cooperative electronic properties are based purely on pi-electrons from carbon atoms offer a fertile ground in the search for exotic states of matter, including unconventional superconductivity and quantum magnetism. The binary caesium salt of phenanthrene, Cs(C14H10) is a Heisenberg antiferromagnet with a candidate gapped spin-liquid state emerging from the highly-frustrated Delta-chain magnetic topology of coupled alternating-exchange spiral tubes of S=½ (C14H10)•- radical anions. The absence of long-range magnetic order down to 1.8 K (T/J~0.02) renders the compound an excellent candidate of a spin-½ quantum spin liquid arising purely from carbon pi-electrons. With this proposal we want to address the nature of the magnetic state down to mK temperatures using the ZF/LF muSR techniqueand search for the emergence or not of long-range antiferromagnetic order.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.86386211
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/86386211
Provenance
Creator Dr Yasuhiro Takabayashi; Professor Kosmas Prassides; Dr Peter Baker
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2020
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 2017-05-12T08:30:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2017-05-15T08:30:00Z