Crystal electric field splitting in the quantum spin liquid candidate NaYbS2.

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NaYbS2 is yet unexplored material which crystallizes in the delafossite structure with general formula ABX2. The magnetic ions Yb3+ form perfect triangular layers separated by nonmagnetic layers of Na ions. Preliminary thermodynamic characterization shows presence of spin fluctuations according to the Curie-Weiss law with T_CW = -10 K, however no sign of ordering or freezing has been detected down to 0.5 K. By analogy with another Yb-contained material, YbMgGaO4, we believe that NaYbS2 can be considered as a quantum spin liquid candidate.Here we propose to measure polycrystalline sample using thermal neutrons to identify crystal electric field splitting.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.90575806
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/90575806
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Creator Professor Dmytro Inosov; Dr Helen Walker; Mr Yevhen Onykiienko
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2021
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 2018-02-12T09:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2018-02-15T07:39:00Z