Probing glassy magnetic transitions in structurally disordered (defect fluorite Er2Zr2O7) and ordered (pyrochlore Er2Ir2O7) oxides.

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Cubic A2B2O7 oxides with A standing for a rare-earth element and B for a transition or main block metal have been systematically studied for their frequently exotic crystallographic and electronic properties. The majority of A2B2O7 compounds crystallize in a cubic pyrochlore or defect-fluorite structure. In the proposed experiment we focus on Er2B2O7 oxides with B = Zr and Ir, adopting defect-fluorite and pyrochlore structures, respectively. Despite structural differences, both the zirconate and iridate show surprisingly similar spin-glass-like magnetic transitions at low temperature. We aim to use muons to confirm and probe the spin-glass ground-state of these materials to help clarify how different frustrating processes (structural disorder in the fluorite structure vs. geometric frustration in the pyrochlore) can lead to similar magnetic properties.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.RB1920343-1
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/108676437
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Creator Dr Milan Klicpera; Mrs Kristina Vlaskova; Dr Adam Berlie; Dr Ross Colman
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 2019-12-15T08:30:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2019-12-20T08:33:44Z