Detailed Measurements of the Crystalline Electric Field of Shastry-Sutherland Magnets Rare Earth Tetraborides

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We are proposing to accurately map out the crystal electric field (CEF) levels in NdB4, ErB4 and HoB4 using MARI. These compounds belong to a family, REB4, which is a rare experimental realisation of the Shastry-Sutherland lattice. Despite the CEF interactions having considerable influence on the magnetic properties, very little work has been done to investigate the CEF interactions. We will produce powdered samples of ErB4, NdB4 and HoB4 and have grown single crystals, which we have characterised. These have shown interesting behaviour such as fractional magnetisation plateaux and complex phase diagrams. While neutron experiments we have performed on NdB4 and HoB4 have also shown some intriguing results.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.61784413
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/61784413
Provenance
Creator Dr Daniel Brunt; Dr Oleg Petrenko; Professor Geetha Balakrishnan; Dr Tatiana Guidi
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2018
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 2015-06-29T07:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2015-07-05T07:00:00Z