Sample-cooling effects on the field-induced low-temperature magnetic phase in NaO2

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Molecular solids like sodium superoxide NaO2 possess relatively simple crystal structures, yet their magnetism is surprisingly complex. This is presumably due to the interplay of spin, orbital and lattice degrees of freedom, which leads to intriguing effects related to reorientation of O2- molecular p orbitals. In such cases the cooling procedure leading to the magnetic ground state may be of high relevance. In our previous muSR studies of NaO2, we have discovered an intriguing magnetic phase below 3 K induced by an applied magnetic field of the order of only 100 G. Two different experiments that have been performed so far indicate a possible cooling-dependence of this effect. Here we propose to carry on the muSR investigation of the field-induced phase after various controlled cooling protocols. We expect that these measurements will finally unveil the mechanism of the observed effect.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.100689460
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/100689460
Provenance
Creator Dr Peter Adler; Dr Martin Klanjsek; Dr Denis Arcon; Dr Andrej Zorko; Mr Tilen Knaflic; Dr Pabitra Biswas; Dr Martin Jansen
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 2019-02-09T09:30:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2019-02-12T10:06:33Z