Magnetic ordering of moments from ionic dimers on a distorted triangular lattice

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Magnetic systems generally involve magnetic moments on individual ions or atoms with coupling between them that can induce magnetic ordering. An alternative paradigm is realised when small groups of ions share a magnetic moment with coupling between the groups that may induce magnetic ordering. Recently spin liquids with spin-1/2 moments on molecular dimers and LiZn2Mo3O8 with spin-1/2 moments on Mo3 trimers have attracted enormous attention in frustrated magnetism. Here we propose to study La3Re2O10, which has spin-1/2 moments on Re2 clusters on a distorted triangular lattice that order via two transitions around 18K. The moment size appears to be enormously suppressed in the ordered state and there is evidence of short-range ordering well above the antiferromagnetic transitions, so this system should be ideal for study with ISIS muons.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.60517467
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/60517467
Provenance
Creator Dr Francis Pratt; Dr Peter Baker; Dr William Hayes; Professor Stephen Blundell; Miss Francesca Foronda; Dr Franz Lang
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2018
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2015-04-27T09:04:22Z
Temporal Coverage End 2015-04-29T08:30:00Z