Temperature dependence of the magnetic excitations in the near perfect S = 1/2 kagome antiferromagnet vesignieite, BaCu3V2O8(OD)2

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Quantum spin liquids (QSL) are novel states of matter that display exotic ground states and fractionalized excitations. In two dimensions, the most promising model system is the S = 1/2 kagome Heisenberg antiferromagnet (KHA), where quantum spins form a geometrically frustrated network of corner-sharing triangles. The mineral vesignieite, BaCu3V2O8(OD)2, which consists of a 0.07% distorted kagome lattice, develops a partially frozen spin state at low temperatures. This static spin structure sets vesignieite apart from other S=1/2 KAFMs such as herbertsmithite, whose spins remain dynamic, and is thought to be a consequence of a significant Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction. We propose to use inelastic neutron scattering to study the temperature dependence os the spin excitations in order to further characterise this unique ground state.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.42580259
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/42580259
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Creator Professor Andrew Wills; Mr David Boldrin; Dr Bjorn Fak; Dr Mechthild Enderle; Dr Emmanuel CANEVET; Dr Junghwan Chun; Dr Reinhard Kremer; Mr Eamonn Connolly
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2017
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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Discipline Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2013-12-15T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2014-02-13T06:57:19Z