Magnetic correlations and possible quantum ground state in a pyrochlore osmate

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Magnetic order is a property of crystalline materials which contain systems of coupled magnetic moments. In materials known as geometrically frustrated magnets there exist coupled magnetic moments but they do not order because there is no one ordering pattern which is more favourable than others. Materials having the cubic pyrochlore structure often behave like this. We have studied a cubic pyrochlore containing osmium and found evidence for magnetic correlations but no magnetic order down to 1.6 K. Osmium in this material is special because the moment tends to fluctuate due to quantum mechanical entanglement of spin and orbital angular momentum. We will use muon spin relaxation to determine whether our osmium pyrochlre orders magnetically below 1.6 K, and to try to understand whether magnetic frustration and quantum fluctuations are responsible for the suppression of magnetic order.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.73946874
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/73946874
Provenance
Creator Dr Peter Baker; Dr Marein Rahn; Mr Nathaniel Davies; Professor Andrew Boothroyd; Professor Stephen Blundell
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2019
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 2016-03-21T09:30:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2016-03-23T09:30:00Z