Field-induced low-temperature phase in NaO2

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Molecular solids like sodium superoxide NaO2 exhibit intricate magnetic behavior despite their simple chemical structure. This is due to the interplay of spin, orbital and lattice degrees of freedom which leads to intriguing effects related to reorientation of O2-molecular p orbitals. Multiple magnetic regimes were indeed observed in NaO2 in our previous NMR and muSR studies. Among other surprising findings is the discovery of a field-induced magnetic phase below 3 K if the applied magnetic field exceeds about 100 G. Here we propose to carry on the muSR investigation of the field-induced phase down to the lowest experimentally accessible temperatures. We expect that these measurements at temperatures where temperature fluctuations are minimized will provide invaluable information about the mechanism of the observed field-induced effect.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.87814479
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/87814479
Provenance
Creator Dr Martin Jansen; Dr Matjaz Gomilsek; Dr Martin Klanjsek; Dr Pabitra Biswas; Mr Adler; Dr Denis Arcon; Mr Tilen Knaflic; Dr Andrej Zorko; Dr Mark Telling; Dr Peter Adler
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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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2017-12-15T09:30:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2017-12-17T09:30:00Z