Muon spin relaxation study of Halden like spin chains in Layered Li3Cu2SbO6

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A large variety of exotic magnetic structure and relevant magnetic properties is observed in honeycomb layered oxides. Recently Koo et al. have observed two magnetic contributions, quasi-free spins at low-temperature and a spin-gapped in Li3Cu2SbO6. Static magnetic susceptibility and ESR data suggest ferromagnetic-antiferromagnetic alternating chains with JFM = -285 K and JAFM = 160 K with a significant amount of Li-defects in the chain. There are about 0.8 quasi-free spins S = ½ per formula unit which cannot be explained by Cu2+ions residing on Li position. Our neutron diffraction study on WISH (RB 1868023) did not reveal any sign of long-range magnetic order down to 50 mK, while inelastic neutron scattering experiments on MERLIN (RB 1890356) shows gaped magnetic excitation around 8 meV. Considering the importance of the Haldane gap, we propose to investigate Li3Cu2SbO6 using MuSR.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.RB1968007-1
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Creator Dr Amitava Bhattacharyya; Dr Pabitra Biswas; Ms Alo Dutta; Mr Tushar Kanti Bhowmik; Professor Tripurari Sinha; Dr Devashi Adroja; Dr Kartik Panda
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2022
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 2019-11-20T08:30:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2019-11-23T18:47:44Z