Magnetic excitations in the S=1/2 kagome antiferromagnet and quantum spin liquid candidate `Mg-herbertsmithite', MgCu3(OD)6Cl2

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We propose to study the magnetic excitations in the quantum spin liquid candidate `Mg-herbertsmithite', which forms a geometrically perfect and highly frustrated two-dimensional kagome lattice of S=1/2 quantum spins with dominant antiferromagnetic nearest-neighbor interactions. No long-range order is observed down to T=20 mK and recent theoretical work predicts a rich phase diagram with different types of gapless, chiral, and U(1) quantum spin liquids that await experimental confirmation. The measurements aim at determining the high-energy part of the magnetic excitations, which will complement the low-energy measurements already performed on IN5, and hopefully lead to a full picture of this fascinating S=1/2 kagome physics.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5291/ILL-DATA.4-05-644
Metadata Access https://data.ill.fr/openaire/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=10.5291/ILL-DATA.4-05-644
Provenance
Creator Wills, Andrew; Fak, Bjorn; Boldrin, David
Publisher Institut Laue-Langevin
Publication Year 2017
Rights OpenAccess; info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Resource Type Dataset
Size 1 GB
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Discipline Particles, Nuclei and Fields