BaCu2(Si1-xGex)2O7 - A spin 1/2 chain material with tunable inter-chain interactions?

DOI

BaCu2Ge2O7 is reported to be a one dimensional Heisenberg antiferromagnet, with three dimensional long range order at low temperatures due to small antiferromagnetic interactions between the chains. These inter-chain interaction are tuneable by substituting Ge for Si. At complete substitution, BaCu2Si2O7 also orders, but the inter-chain coupling is ferromagnetic. We propose to survey the BaCu2(Si1-xGex)2O7 phase diagram, to investigate the consequences of tuning x to minimize inter-chain coupling, through competition between ferro- and antiferromagnetic inter-chain couplings. BaCu2(Si0.5Ge0.5)2O7 may represents a rare example of a S=1/2 system with tuneable inter-chain interactions and consequently provide a useful model system for probing the fascinating phenomena observed in 1D quantum magnetic systems and the complex interplay of competing intra- and inter-chain interactions

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.44927674
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/44927674
Provenance
Creator Dr Gary Hix; Professor Roger Eccleston; Dr Christopher Castleton; Miss Christina Maria Schaeffler; Dr Rob Bewley; Dr Peter Baker
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2016
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
Representation
Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2013-12-06T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2013-12-09T08:47:51Z