Magnetic excitations in the new S = 1/2 kagome antiferromagnet and quantum spin liquid candidate ND3+2xCu3-xMo2O8(OD)2

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Materials which display exotic electronic states are of great interest to fundamental science, such as quantum spin-liquids (QSL) which are theorised to underpin the transition to high-Tc superconductivity. Inelastic neutron scattering has recently revealed fractionalised excitations in the S=1/2 kagome magnet herbertsmithite, a hallmark of a QSL state. Such a highly frustrated state survives in this material despite cationic disorder which perturbs the 2-D magnetic structure. Here we propose to measure a material with remarkably similar properties, ND3+2xCu3-xMo2O8(OD)2, where the kagome lattice is slightly depleted. Bulk magnetisation measurements reveal strong antiferromagnetic interactions (~300K) yet no sign of long-range magnetic order down to T = 2K. Therefore, this material offers the potential to explore QSL states as well as provide an interesting comparison to herbertsmithite.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.79106983
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/79106983
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Creator Dr Helen Walker; Mr David Boldrin; Dr Bjorn Fak; Mr Eamonn Connolly; Professor Andrew Wills
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2019
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 2016-04-20T08:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2016-04-24T08:00:00Z