Approaching the bond-nematic quantum critical region in a 2D square lattice magnet

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Frustrated square-lattice antiferromagnets with competing interactions J1 and J2 are prototypical model system to study complex magnetic correlations. For the generalised J1-J2 model including ferromagnetic interactions new spin-liquid and bond-nematic phases are predicted by theory. We have been able to synthesize the compound BaCdVO(PO4)2 and recently proved on D7 that it lies right on the border of a columnar antiferromagnetic phase with the spin-nematic phase. Here we propose to investigate the magnetic excitations of this unique material and characterize the nature of its quantum fluctuations. A way of driving this material right inside the spin-nematic phase is also described. As a future plan, this phase will then be accessible to us with the new 10T option of IN5 in the coming year.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.5291/ILL-DATA.4-01-1394
Metadata Access https://data.ill.fr/openaire/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=10.5291/ILL-DATA.4-01-1394
Provenance
Creator Smerald, Andrew; Schmidt, Burkhard; Rueegg, Christian; Ollivier, Jacques; Goff, Jonathan; Skoulatos, Markos; Shannon, Nicholas
Publisher Institut Laue-Langevin
Publication Year 2015
Rights OpenAccess; info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
OpenAccess true
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Resource Type Dataset
Size 4 GB
Version 1
Discipline Particles, Nuclei and Fields