muSR investigation of a possible spin-liquid state in 1T-TaS2

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1T-TaS2 is a layered material with many intriguing properties that are after four decades still sparking controversial discussions. Due to a charge gap, it has been long believed to be a Mott insulator, yet its magnetic ground state, which should be affected by the geometrical frustration of the corresponding spin lattice, remains largely unexplored. Here we propose a comprehensive muSR study to complement our NQR investigation, which is limited by extremely long 181Ta NQR relaxation times at low temperatures and lower sensitivity to small magnetic moments than muSR. This study should allow us to distinguish between the spin-liquid scenario and a state with small frozen/ordered magnetic moments.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.82355352
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/82355352
Provenance
Creator Dr Denis Arcon; Dr Matjaz Gomilsek; Dr Martin Klanjsek; Dr Fiona Coomer; Dr Andrej Zorko; Dr Mihailovic; Dr Peter Adler
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2019
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2016-10-08T08:30:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2016-10-10T08:30:00Z