Multistage symmetry breaking of the breathing pyrochlore compounds LiGaCr4O8 and LiInCr4O8

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At the heart of understanding collective phenomena in condensed matter physics is the search for emergent phases of matter formed by strong frustrations in geometrically frustrated quantum magnets. Unlike conventional magnets, their low energy state is unstable against thermal or quantum fluctuations as well as other perturbations because a macroscopic number of different arrangements of spins can minimize energy. A massive degeneracy can be lifted through multistage processes to have novel phases with partial degeneracy. Here we address this issue by investigating the breathing pyrochlore compounds LiACr4O8 (A=Ga, In), in which small and large Cr3+ (S=3/2) tetrahedra are regularly arranged in an alternating pattern using muons spin resonance.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.58448419
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/58448419
Provenance
Creator Dr Sungwon Yoon; Professor KwangYong Choi; Dr Suheon Lee; Dr WonJun Lee; Dr Mark Telling
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2018
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2015-03-27T09:30:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2015-03-30T08:30:00Z