Na4Ir3O8: a spin liquid, a valence bond crystal, or something else?

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Spins on the kagome lattice are one of the most widely investigated topics in frustrated magnetism. This two-dimensional corner sharing triangular lattice offers a macroscopically degenerate ground state if the lattice symmetry remains unbroken, and fluctuations persist to the lowest measured temperatures. Na4Ir3O8 represents the three-dimensional analogue of these systems, the hyperkagome lattice. It has spin-1/2 moments and with no magnetic order observed down to 0.3K there is considerable theoretical work describing it as a spin liquid. Recently other theories have suggested it is a valence bond crystal. muSR provides an exquisitely sensitive probe of spin liquids and we propose to extend our previous measurements (T>0.3K) to dilution fridge temperatures and also use the approach recently shown to be successful in k-ET2Cu2(CN)3 for finding phase transitions from the spin liquid state.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24087891
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24087891
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Creator Dr Francis Pratt; Dr Peter Baker; Professor Stephen Blundell; Miss Isabel Franke; Professor Tom Lancaster; Dr Johannes Moeller; Dr William Hayes; Dr Dharmalingan Prabhakaran
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2014
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 2011-10-06T16:58:48Z
Temporal Coverage End 2011-10-11T13:08:00Z