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Ba8CoNb6O24: A Spin-1/2 Triangular-Lattice Heisenberg Antiferromagnet in the Two-Dimensional Limit

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Author(s)

R. Rawl, L. Ge, H. Agrawal, Y. Kamiya, C. R. Dela Cruz, Nicholas Butch, X. F. Sun, M. Lee, E. S. Choi, J. Oitmaa, C. D. Batista, M. Mourigal, H. D. Zhou, J. Ma

Abstract

The quasi-two-dimensional perovskite Ba8CoNb6O24 comprises equilateral effective spin-1/2 Co2+ triangular layers separated by six nonmagnetic Nb5+ layers. Susceptibility, specific heat and neutron scattering measurements combined with high-temperature series expansions and spin-wave calculations confirm that Ba8CoNb6O24 is basically a two-dimensional(2D)magnet with no detectable spin anisotropy and no long range magnetic ordering down to 0.06 K. In other words, Ba8CoNb6O24 is very close to be a realization of the paradigmatic S = 1/2 triangular Heisenberg model, which is not expected to exhibit symmetry breaking at finite temperature according to Mermin and Wagner theorem.
Citation
Physical Review B
Volume
95
Issue
6

Keywords

magnet

Citation

Rawl, R. , Ge, L. , Agrawal, H. , Kamiya, Y. , Dela Cruz, C. , Butch, N. , Sun, X. , Lee, M. , Choi, E. , Oitmaa, J. , Batista, C. , Mourigal, M. , Zhou, H. and Ma, J. (2017), Ba<sub>8</sub>CoNb<sub>6</sub>O<sub>24</sub>: A Spin-1/2 Triangular-Lattice Heisenberg Antiferromagnet in the Two-Dimensional Limit, Physical Review B, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=922407 (Accessed March 28, 2024)
Created February 16, 2017, Updated October 12, 2021