Valence bond solid in the charge ordered state of Rb4O6

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Open p-shell anionic mixed-valence compounds have been recently proposed as intriguing model systems for disentangling the complex interplay of charge, lattice, orbital, and spin degrees of freedom in Verwey-type charge ordering processes. Our preliminary electron paramagnetic resonance experiments on Rb4O6 have shown a zero-field spin gap of about 450 GHz, which can be closed with a magnetic field of 14.5 T. The results are consistent with formation of O2- (S = 1/2) dimers with a singlet ground state and indicate the presence of additional inter-dimer isotropic and intra-dimer Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions, thus questioning the true ground state that could either be a valence bond solid or a long-range magnetic order with reduced ordered moments. Here we propose to carry out a muSR investigation down to the lowest experimentally accessible temperatures to answer this question.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.100689272
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/100689272
Provenance
Creator Dr Martin Jansen; Dr Peter Adler; Dr Denis Arcon; Mr Tilen Knaflic; Dr Andrej Zorko; Dr Pabitra Biswas
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2022
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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Discipline Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2019-02-07T09:30:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2019-02-11T08:42:40Z