p-orbital magnetism in cesium superoxide

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CsO2 is the most interesting of the alkali superoxides. It shows a remarkable variation in the magnetic exchange coupling J(T) of over 50%. An orbital ordering transition occurs below ~70 K in, where the lattice connectivity crosses over from 2D to 1D. Below the structural phase transition, the S = 1/2 spins of the p-orbital O2- anion form a Tomonaga-Luttinger Liquid state, and below 8K a presently unknown magnetic order condenses out of this state (implying that interchain coupling is of the order 1meV). This material represents the first clear example of the both a phononic modulation of the magnetic exchange J, and the first example of such an exotic 1D chain physics in a p-orbital magnet. We propose to measure the low temperature magnetic structure, and we will combine this measurement with inelastic measurements of the spinon/magnon excitation spectrum.

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PID https://hdl.handle.net/21.11151/siif-tftq
Related Identifier IsCompiledBy https://doi.org/10.5442/NI000001
Metadata Access https://data.helmholtz-berlin.de/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:data.helmholtz-berlin.de:inv/5264
Provenance
Instrument E2 - Flat-Cone Diffractometer,
Publisher Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie
Contributor Reehuis, Manfred; Hoffmann, Jens-Uwe; Lake, Bella; Princep, Andrew; Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie
Publication Year 2022
Rights Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal; https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
OpenAccess true
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Resource Type Investigation; Collection
Size 79.66 MiB
Discipline Other
Temporal Coverage Begin 2017-03-30T06:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2017-04-03T06:00:00Z