The search for long range exchange interactions in the S=1 square lattice antiferromagnet La2NiO4

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Exchange interactions in insulators can be understood in terms of the Andersen exchange picture in which the Hamiltonian has two contributions: (i) a kinetic term characterized by a hopping energy, t, between nearest neighbour Ni or Cu sites and (ii) a potential energy term, U, being the energy penalty for adding an additional electron on a given site. Within this picture, one can view antiferromagnetic exchange as arising from virtual hopping between sites. Experiments by Coldea et al on S=1/2 square latice antiferromagnet La2CuO4 showed that four-hop processes give rise to significant long range exchange interactions. Here we will search to see whether similar effect persist in S=1 analogue La2NiO4.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24078704
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24078704
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Creator Professor Andrew Boothroyd; Professor Stephen Hayden
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2012
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 2009-11-26T13:13:51Z
Temporal Coverage End 2009-12-06T12:14:04Z