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为了理解呼吸烧绿石化合物Ba3Yb2Zn5O11的磁性:单晶研究

Towards understanding the magnetic properties of the breathing pyrochlore compound Ba3Yb2Zn5O11: A single crystal study

Sachith Dissanayake, Zhenzhong Shi, Jeffrey G. Rau, Rabindranath Bag, William Steinhardt, Nicholas P. Butch, Matthias Frontzek, Andrey Podlesnyak, David Graf, C… 展开作者

Sachith Dissanayake, Zhenzhong Shi, Jeffrey G. Rau, Rabindranath Bag, William Steinhardt, Nicholas P. Butch, Matthias Frontzek, Andrey Podlesnyak, David Graf, Casey Marjerrison, Jue Liu, Michel J. P. Gingras, Sara Haravifard

摘要:

Ba3Yb2Zn5O11在呼吸烧绿石化合物中是独特的,因为它处于几乎解耦的极限,其中四面体间的相互作用很弱,承载着磁性镱(Yb 3+)离子的孤立簇或“分子磁体”。在这项工作中,我们提出了第一个研究进行呼吸烧绿石Ba3Yb2Zn5O11的单晶样品,使用各种磁强计和中子散射技术,随着理论建模。我们采用非弹性中子散射调查的磁动力学作为一个功能的应用领域(相对于幅度和方向)下降到70 mK的温度,其中非弹性散射揭示了分散带的激发发现在早期的粉末样品的研究,在良好的协议与单四面体模型。然而,在零场和直流磁化率在有限场的扩散中子散射表现出的功能,表明在低能量的激发,不被捕获的单四面体模型的存在。通过对分布函数分析的本地结构下降到2 K,没有发现结构紊乱的证据。我们的结论是,在描述的低能量,低温物理的Ba3Yb2Zn5O11的单四面体模型之外的效果是重要的,但它们的性质仍然是不确定的。

英文摘要:

Ba3Yb2Zn5O11 is unique among breathing pyrochlore compounds for being in the nearly decoupled limit where inter-tetrahedron interactions are weak, hosting isolated clusters or "molecular magnet" like tetrahedra of magnetic ytterbium (Yb3+) ions. In this work, we present the first study carried out on single-crystal samples of the breathing pyrochlore Ba3Yb2Zn5O11, using a variety of magnetometry and neutron scattering techniques along with theoretical modeling. We employ inelastic neutron scattering to investigate the magnetic dynamics as a function of applied field (with respect to both magnitude and direction) down to a temperature of 70 mK, where inelastic scattering reveals dispersionless bands of excitations as found in earlier powder sample studies, in good agreement with a single-tetrahedron model. However, diffuse neutron scattering at zero field and dc-susceptibility at finite field exhibit features suggesting the presence of excitations at low-energy that are not captured by the single tetrahedron model. Analysis of the local structure down to 2 K via pair distribution function analysis finds no evidence of structural disorder. We conclude that effects beyond the single tetrahedron model are important in describing the low-energy, low temperature physics of Ba3Yb2Zn5O11, but their nature remains undetermined.

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