Search for a structural distortion in the AF pyrochlore magnet Gd2Ti2O7

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Previous neutron studies of powdered Gd2Ti2O7 (GTO) have shown that despite it relative simplicity as an s-state Heisenberg antiferromagnet, the magnetic structure is a fairly complicated k=(1/2 1/2 1/2) 4-k structure with 1/4 of the Gd spins remaining partially disordered. This result doesn't fit well with either Mossbauer/ESR measurements or theoretical calculations - and furthermore - seems to be incompatible with a very recent WISH investigation of the field-dependence of the magnetic peaks. That experiment seems to suggest that the magnetic structure is single k. But if this is the case then the cubic symmetry is lowered, and must be accompanied by a structural distortion which we now plan to look for using the HRPD diffractometer. We will require 2 days of beamtime on HRPD with a dilution fridge in order to complete this crucial experiment.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.44927943
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/44927943
Provenance
Creator Dr Joe Paddison; Dr Jason Gardner; Dr Georg Ehlers; Dr Ross Stewart; Dr Oleg Petrenko; Dr Dmitry Khalyavin
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 Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2013-12-09T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2013-12-12T09:33:19Z