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具有交换无序的阻挫磁体中的静态和动态类XY短程有序

Static and dynamic XY-like short-range order in a frustrated magnet with exchange disorder

Kate A. Ross, Jason W. Krizan, Jose A. Rodriguez-Rivera, Robert J. Cava, Collin L. Broholm

摘要:

用非弹性中子散射研究了Co2+基烧绿石NaCaCo 2F 7单晶。这种具有淬灭交换无序的受抑磁体在居里-外斯温度的60分之一以下保持强相关顺磁状态。在T_f = 2.4 K以下,出现了漫弹性散射,并占总磁散射的30 ± 10%,正如在超过\hbar /δE=3.8 ps的时间尺度上冻结的J_{eff} = 1/2矩所预期的那样。漫散射与短程XY反铁磁性一致,相关长度为16 μ m。非弹性强度的动量(Q)的依赖性表明放松XY类反铁磁集群在能量低于~ 5.5 meV,和共线反铁磁波动高于此能量。相关的XY组态形成了一个连续的流形的相关态。与产生这种连续流形的众所周知的模型相反,尽管有弱(~ 12%)交换无序的证据,但无序有序并没有在NaCaCo 2F 7中选择有序状态。相反,NaCaCo 2F 7冻结成跨越该流形的短程有序簇。

英文摘要:

A single crystal of the Co2+ based pyrochlore NaCaCo2F7 was studied by inelastic neutron scattering. This frustrated magnet with quenched exchange disorder remains in a strongly correlated paramagnetic state down to one 60th of the Curie-Weiss temperature. Below T_f = 2.4 K, diffuse elastic scattering develops and comprises 30 +/- 10% of the total magnetic scattering, as expected for J_{eff} = 1/2 moments frozen on a time scale that exceeds \hbar/δE=3.8 ps. The diffuse scattering is consistent with short range XY antiferromagnetism with a correlation length of 16 Å. The momentum (Q) dependence of the inelastic intensity indicates relaxing XY-like antiferromagnetic clusters at energies below ~ 5.5 meV, and collinear antiferromagnetic fluctuations above this energy. The relevant XY configurations form a continuous manifold of symmetry-related states. Contrary to well-known models that produce this continuous manifold, order-by-disorder does not select an ordered state in NaCaCo2F7 despite evidence for weak (~12 %) exchange disorder. Instead, NaCaCo2F7 freezes into short range ordered clusters that span this manifold.

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