muSR study of quantum atomic deuterium/hydrogen and their critical slowing behaviors in paratacamite Cu2(OD)3Cl/Cu2(OH)3Cl

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Recently we found by muSR that the deuterium (D) atoms in the new ferroelectric compound Co2(OD)3Cl were quantum atomic and showed a critical slowing down with Tc=230 K, which leaded to a deuterium long-range order and brought out a ferroelectric transition at TE=230 K. Meanwhile in Co2(OH)3Cl, quantum atomic H showed Tc=210 K with incomplete ordering. For the first time, the muSR technique is successfully applied to ferroelectrics. The magnetic frustration seems also played a role in the critical slowing. Now we have lobserved similar ferroelectric behaviors in paratacamite Cu2(OD)3Cl/ Cu2(OH)3Cl, which has a similar highly symmetric R-3m structure like Co(OD)3Cl/ Co(OH)3Cl but has much different magnetism. The proposed experiment will contribute greatly toward the establishment of utilizing the muSR technique to ferroelectricity, which is one of the major solid-state physics field.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.87843370
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/87843370
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Creator Professor Xu-Guang Zheng; Dr Isao Watanabe; Dr Ichihiro Yamauchi; Mr Xingliang Xu; Miss Harison Rozak; Miss Suci Winarsih; Mr Muhammad Redo Ramadhan
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2020
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 2017-10-21T08:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2017-10-25T16:16:16Z