µSR study of the frustrated hyper-honeycomb magnet beta-Li2IrO3

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In the present proposal, we would like to investigate beta-Li2IrO3, a 5d based hyper-honeycomb system, where strong Kitaev-type anisotropy of magnetic couplings triggers a peculiar non-coplanar magnetic order below 38 K. Bulk measurements suggest that external magnetic field tends to suppress this ordered state, and a new state lacking any clear signatures of long-range order, presumably a quantum spin liquid state, is formed above 3 T. Since until date no microscopic measurements have been done to unveil the nature of this field-induced state, µSR would be one of the best technique to employ. We propose µSR measurements on beta-Li2IrO3 at zero field and in applied fields, where the new magnetic state is formed. µSR will provide indispensable information on the nature of this field-induced state.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.84802223
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/84802223
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Creator Professor Philipp Gegenwart; Professor Mayukh Majumder; Dr Alexander Tsirlin; Dr Pabitra Biswas; Dr Tusharkanti Dey
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 2017-03-04T09:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2017-03-06T09:00:00Z