Novel ground states and spin ordering in iridate pyrochlores

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We request four days of beam time to conduct zero and longitudinal field measurements on iridate pyrochlores A2Ir2O7 (A = Y, Lu, Nd) in the temperature range 200 K to 2 K and in fields from 0 to 0.1 T. Recent calculations predict that the combination of spin-orbit coupling and electronic correlations (tunable via choice of A) may produce ground state properties including a ¿4 in/4 out¿ Ir moment ordering on the geometrically frustrated tetrahedral sites and, for the A = Y compound, an unusual ¿Dirac semi-metal¿ phase. Samples are being fabricated at Boston College, with polycrystalline single-phase Y2Ir2O7 in hand; Nd and Lu variations are currently being fabricated. Proposals to perform complementary neutron scattering experiments are now being submitted by my collaborator Prof. Stephen Wilson of Boston College.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24088145
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24088145
Provenance
Creator Dr Sean Giblin; Professor Michael Graf; Dr Steven Disseler
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2014
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 2011-10-18T09:30:42Z
Temporal Coverage End 2011-10-22T10:04:23Z