Investigating the magnetic structure of Weyl Semimetal MoTe2 using neutron diffraction

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MoTe2 is a “type-II” Weyl semimetal and very topical field of research for both theoreticians and experimentalists. Two weeks ago we measured this system using muSR technique and found magnetic ordering below 50 K. This is the first observation of magnetic ordering in this system and probably in any Weyl semimetal candidate. Here, we propose to study the magnetic structure of MoTe2 in temperature range from 2K to 70K using the WISH diffractometer. Our proposed measurement will be a crucial step for our broader research of these compounds and it will lead to a high quality publication. We are about to publish our musr results in next couple of weeks. As soon as it is online, is likely to be studied at other neutron sources. Therefore, we believe that rapid access is suitable for our proposed measurements.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.82439872
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/82439872
Provenance
Creator Dr Dmitry Khalyavin; Dr Aidy Hillier; Dr Devashi Adroja; Professor Geetha Balakrishnan; Dr Pabitra Biswas; Dr Sourabh Barua
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2019
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 Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2016-09-15T07:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2016-09-17T07:00:00Z