Exploring magnetic correlations in a new S=1/2 kagome antiferromagnet

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The combination of strong magnetic frustration and low spin found in the S=1/2 quantum antiferromagnet is believed to lead to non-classical magnetic behaviour, and in particular the absence of any long-range magnetic order down to T=0, and exotic spin excitations. Such phenomena are both interesting from a fundamental point of view, and may also be related to challenges in applied science and technology through a possible connection with charge transport in high-temperature superconductors. However, examples of such materials have been very rare to date, an exception being herbertsmithite, ZnCu3(OH)6Cl2 for which muon measurements at ISIS provided the first evidence of suppression of static magnetic correlations down to very low temperatures. Here we propose to perform a similar experiment on a new vanadium fluoride which preliminary measurements show not to order down to very low T.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24088354
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24088354
Provenance
Creator Dr Lucy Clark; Professor Paul Attfield; Professor Phil Lightfoot; Professor Andrew Harrison; Professor Fabrice Bert; Dr Morris
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2014
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2011-12-16T10:21:05Z
Temporal Coverage End 2011-12-18T08:28:10Z