Spin excitations in the non-magnetic ground state of In2Ru2O7

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Correlated transition-metal oxides with orbital degeneracy such as ruthenates with d4 (S = 1) configuration offer a plethora of unconventional electronic states. Combined with geometrical frustration, such materials may display exotic spin-orbital ordering phenomena. We discovered a new pyrochlore ruthenate In2Ru2O7, which undergoes a magnetic transition at ~ 220 K with a sharp drop of magnetic susceptibility to nearly zero simultaneously with a structural transition. This behaviour may point to a spin-singlet formation accompanying orbital order as observed in other ruthenates. muSR data excludes the presence of long-range antiferromagnetic order. In order to evidence a spin-singlet ground state, an observation of an excitation from a spin-singlet to spin-triplet is significant. We propose to perform inelastic neutron scattering on Merlin to detect the possible spin-gap of In2Ru2O7.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.RB1920303-1
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/105605694
Provenance
Creator Dr Helen Walker; Professor Hidenori Takagi; Dr Aleks Krajewska; Dr Alexandra Gibbs; Dr Tomohiro Takayama; Dr Gøran Nilsen
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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Discipline Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2019-10-15T07:30:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2019-10-18T08:29:47Z