Spin dynamics in volborthite at low temperature and high field

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Experimental realisations of spin models which exhibit a breakdown of Neel order have been much sought in the last few decades. One of the most theoretically attractive models which exhibit such physics is the s=1/2 kagome Heisenberg antiferromagnet. The naturally occuring mineral volborthite was put forward as a realisation of this model at an early stage, but has subsequently proved significantly more complex, exhibiting a short range ordered phase at T<1K and several field induced phase transitions. We propose here an inelastic time of flight neutron scattering experiment on the LET spectrometer to determine the nature of one of these high field states. We request 6 days of beamtime to both characterise high and low field phases, as well as tracking the spin dynamics across the transition at Hc1=4T. Should LET be unavailable, MERLIN would be a suitable substitute.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24088576
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24088576
Provenance
Creator Dr Ross Stewart; Professor Zenji Hiroi; Professor Andrew Harrison; Professor Henrik Ronnow; Mr Hajime Ishikawa; Dr Gøran Nilsen
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2015
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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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2012-02-24T09:38:59Z
Temporal Coverage End 2012-03-02T09:14:21Z