Spin Ladders in Metallic Yb2Pt2Pb

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Yb2Pt2Pb is a first-in-class system where spin ladders are coupled to quasiparticles, made massive by strong quantum mechanical fluctuations. The classical Yb moments are Ising-like, and they form the orthogonal dimers of the Shastry-Sutherland lattice. These dimers form the rungs of two orthogonal magnetic ladders that extend along the c-axis, and the Yb moments are perpendicular to the dimer bonds. Antiferromagnetic order is found below TN=2.06 K in the absence of a magnetic field. Inelastic neutron scattering measurements find that the excitations at the lowest temperatures are spinons, with an intrachain exchange J||~0.4-0.5 meV. We seek here 6 days of time on IRIS to extend these measurements to smaller energy scales, so that we can determine how the onset of antiferromagnetic order and coupling to the conduction electrons may modify the properties of the spinons.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.42580328
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/42580328
Provenance
Creator Professor Meigan Aronson; Dr Igor Zaliznyak; Dr William Gannon; Dr Liusuo Wu
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2017
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 2014-05-07T23:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2014-05-15T09:11:11Z