Hunting for the low-temperature, low-field magnetization plateau in Tb2Ti2O7

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Tb2Ti2O7 is a pyrochlore antiferromagnet that has previously been viewed as a spin liquid. This description fails to describe key features of its physics and more recently the concept of a quantum spin ice has been proposed as a better description. This is a spin ice subject to both thermal and quantum fluctuations. While this is a more apposite description of the physics it has not been verified experimentally. Earlier this year a prediction was made that a magnetization plateau would be observed along the [111] axis at low-temperatures in fields less than 1kG, with a level crossing at its upper boundary. Because of the low temperature required it is very difficult to verify this prediction. We propose to do longitudinal field muSR to test for both the magnetization plateau and the level crossing.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24079648
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24079648
Provenance
Creator Dr Sean Giblin; Dr Peter Baker
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2013
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 Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2010-04-27T10:28:03Z
Temporal Coverage End 2010-05-11T08:15:42Z