Musr on a 2D quantum spin liquid candidate material without structural disorder.

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The ordered double perovskite Sr2CuWO6 is a quasi-two dimensional J1/J2 frustrated square lattice model antiferromagnet. The divalent Cu carries S = 1/2 while the W (VI) is 4d0. Below 900 K the CuO6 octahedra are Jahn-Teller distorted leading to a tetragonal unit cell with magnetic exchange mainly in the ab plane via the singly-occupied d_(x2-y2) orbital. The magnetic susceptibility and neutron diffraction confirm the absence of a long-range ordered state down to 2 K, while the exchange interactions are of the order of -100 K and the magnetic susceptibility exhibits a broad maximum around 80 K. We have synthesised high-quality sample of this well-studied material and propose to use MUSR to study the local spin dynamics in this material down to 2 K to check whether it has a quantum spin liquid or the more common spin-glass ground state.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24090623
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24090623
Provenance
Creator Dr Mark de Vries; Mr Oliver Burrows; Ms Shabana Ahmad; Dr Gøran Nilsen
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2016
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 2013-05-27T09:05:25Z
Temporal Coverage End 2013-05-29T07:28:04Z