Magnetic order in the highly frustrated S=1/2 kagome antiferromagnet haydeeite, Cu3Mg(OD)6Cl2

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Quantum spin liquids (QSL) are new and exotic states of matter that in 2 dimensions were proposed by Anderson to underpin the transition to unconventional superconductivity of the high-Tc cuprates. The S=1/2 kagome antiferromagnet (KAFM) is considered the most promising model system for the realisation of 2D QSLs, however experimental realisations are rare. Haydeeite, Cu3Mg(OD)6Cl2, provides a remarkably 2D model S=1/2 KAFM as any Cu/Mg antisite disorder occurs within a 2D triangular lattice. It displays clear characteristics of magnetic frustration: a magnetic transition at T_N=4K involves competing ferro- and antiferro-magnetic components which frustrate eachother. Recent inelastic neutron scattering data shows an antiferromagnetic spin wave below T_N in addition to short-range correlations. We propose to characterise this magnetic structure below T_N using the WISH diffractometer.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.42590210
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/42590210
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Creator Mr David Boldrin; Professor Andrew Wills
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2016
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 2013-09-22T23:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2013-09-25T09:10:46Z