An investigation of the effects ofB-site cationic disorder on the well-isolated non-Kramers' quantum spin ice Pr2Sn2O7

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Although stuffing in the QSI Yb2Ti2O7 has been shown to play a vital role in the selection of a magnetic g.s., no study before 2012 probed the effects of B-site disorder in a QSI. In fact, the only study to address such disorder was performed on Tb2Sn2-xTixO7 (TSTO), showing that the solid solution produced a novel type of spin liquid. Although TSTO answered many questions, there remains an important question, is the effect of B-site disorder on a thermally isolated QSI the same? In fact, a study on Pr2-xBixRu2O7 (PBRO) may have already answered this question. Through inelastic work, van Duijn et al. hinted that the non-Kramers’ doublet had split into a continuum of singlet-singlet transitions. This behaviour would be consistent with the findings of the work on TSTO. but it should be noted that PRBO is not a QSI system with disorder being exclusively A-site. Instead, we propose to use Pr2Sn2-xTixO7, possessing a thermally isolated non-Kramers' doublet and exclusive B-site disorder. We propose to use D7 to detect the broad diffuse low |Q| magnetic features at mK temperatures, characteristic of the SL state that we suspect Pr2Sn2-xTixO7 possesses.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5291/ILL-DATA.5-42-434
Metadata Access https://data.ill.fr/openaire/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=10.5291/ILL-DATA.5-42-434
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Creator Browne, Alexander; Wildes, Andrew; Wiebe, Christopher; Attfield, John Paul; Hong, Ka Hou; Sarte, Paul
Publisher Institut Laue-Langevin
Publication Year 2016
Rights OpenAccess; info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Resource Type Dataset
Size 3 GB
Version 1
Discipline Particles, Nuclei and Fields