Unveiling molecular and collective magnetism in the coupled trimer spin system Ba4NbMn3O12

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When isolated spin clusters are weakly coupled to each other, zero-dimensional quantum and three-dimensional collective magnetism concomitantly occur. This is envisioned in the low-lying magnetic excitations, including transverse and longitudinal magnon modes. The newly discovered hexagonal perovskite Ba4NbMn3O12 constitutes Mn3O12 trimers made of three face-sharing MnO6 octahedra, with the trimers arranged in triangular planes. Each Mn3O12 trimer is corner-shared with the non-magnetic NbO6 octahedra, thereby leading to weak intertrimer interactions through the Mn-O-O-Mn super-super-exchange paths. In addition, adBa4NbMn3O12 shows a ferromagnetic type order at 42K, yet with a small negative Curie-Weiss temperature of -4K. This energy hierarchy renders Ba4NbMn3O12 an attracting platform to explore a crossover of molecular magnetism to more collective behavior.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.101137261
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/101137261
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Creator Professor KwangYong Choi; Dr Suheon Lee; Dr Jhuma Sannigrahi; Dr Devashi Adroja
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2022
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 2019-03-11T09:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2019-03-13T09:00:00Z