Low energy magnetic excitations on a new triangular-lattice antiferromagnet

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Given the controversy about the magnetic ground state of the recently well studied triangular-lattice antiferromagnet (TLA) YbMgGaO4 due to Mg2+/Ga3+ disorder, we have synthesised a new TLA compound NdMgAl11O19 in which Nd3+ ions are arranged into perfect triangular lattice in the ab plane. Our previous polarised neutron diffraction and inelastic neutron scattering on powder samples have strongly indicated that this Ising-TLA material may be an ideal candidate to realise quantum spin liquid (QSL). We thus propose to carry out inelastic neutron scattering experiments on a co-aligned single-crystal sample (~2 g) at cold neutron chopper spectrometer LET, in order to study the low energy spin dynamic at the base temperature of a standard dilution refrigerator i.e. ~50 mK. We would request 7 days of beamtime at LET.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.RB1910521-1
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/103214607
Provenance
Creator Dr Yixi Su; Dr Viviane Pecanha Antonio; Dr Rob Bewley; Dr Junda Song; Dr David Voneshen; Dr Fengfeng Zhu
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 2019-11-22T10:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2019-11-29T17:57:54Z