High Longitudinal Field Relaxation in LiYHoF4

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We have observed an anomalous monotonically increasing longitudinal field relaxation rate in LiY_(1-x)Ho_xF_4 for applied fields above 1000 G (along the c-axis) and at a temperature of 16 K for samples with x = 0.01 and 0.10. This highly unusual behavior, observed to persist up to 6000 G at the PSI facility, may be related to enhanced spin relaxation at an avoided level crossing near 1.8 T in the Ho electronuclear energy level diagram; other possible explanations include unusual field-dependent spin-phonon or spin-orbit coupling or changes in the thermal populations of the Zeeman-split energy levels. We request 2 days of beamtime in the HiFi spectrometer to monitor the relaxation rate to fields greater than 2 T and in a range of temperatures to determine the origin of this highly unsual behavior.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24079291
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24079291
Provenance
Creator Dr James Lord; Dr Sean Giblin; Professor Michael Graf
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 2010-08-02T10:22:52Z
Temporal Coverage End 2010-08-04T08:20:47Z