Low Temperature Dynamics in beta-Mn

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beta-manganese is the only room-temperature-stable crystal structrure of elemental manganese, which remains paramagnetic at all temperatures. This is in stark contrast to both alpha- and gamma-manganese which are both strong itinerant antiferromagnets (IAFM) at 110 K and 500 K respectively. It is commonly thought that the topology of the beta-Mn lattice is the cause of its non-magnetic ground-state - with the lattice supporting geometrical frustration of AFM correlated Mn spins. Despite this, DFT calculations suggest that the magnetic ground state of beta-Mn should actually be ferrimagnetic. Surprisingly, the magnetic spin-dynamics at low temperature (< 1K) has never been studied before, and we now propose to look at the magnetic dynamical properties, using muon spin relaxation. This experiment will take 2 days to complete.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24079966
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24079966
Provenance
Creator Dr Devashi Adroja; Dr Ross Stewart; Professor Brian Rainford
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 2010-03-05T09:57:18Z
Temporal Coverage End 2010-03-08T09:29:28Z