Search for spin freezing and magnetic order in a frustrated cluster magnet

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LiZn2Mo3O8 is a highly unusual geometrically frustrated material: the magnetic moments are associated not with single ions but with small transition-metal clusters. The spin is delocalized over the three crystallographically equivalent Mo ions in a Mo3O12 cluster. Below 96 K there is a sudden change in the slope of the inverse magnetic susceptibility and the behaviour below that is consistent with two-thirds of the spins condensing into a valence bond state. This experiment is designed to search for magnetic order or spin freezing in the remaining one-third of spins in order to explain the behaviour of the heat capacity. Neutron measurements have failed to observe long range magnetic order but are not sensitive to weak moments.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24090544
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24090544
Provenance
Creator Dr Francis Pratt; Dr Peter Baker; Dr William Hayes; Professor Stephen Blundell; Professor Tom Lancaster; Professor Tyrel McQueen; Dr Johannes Moeller; Miss Francesca Foronda
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2016
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 Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2013-05-23T09:32:04Z
Temporal Coverage End 2013-05-27T07:58:02Z