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Dimensional Evolution of Spin Correlations in the Magnetic Pyrochlore Yb2Ti2O7

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Author(s)

K. A. Ross, L. R. Yaraskavitch, M. Laver, Jason S. Gardner, J. A. Quilliam, S. Meng, J. B. Kycia, Deepak Singh, Th. Proffen, H. A. Dabkowska, B. D. Gaulin

Abstract

The pyrochlore material Yb2Ti2O7 displays unexpected quasi-two-dimensional (2D) magnetic correlations within a cubic lattice environment at low temperatures, before entering an exotic disordered ground state below T=265mK. We report neutron scattering measurements of the tehrmal evolution of the 2D spin correlations in space and time. Short range three dimensional (3D) spin correlations develop below 400mK, accompanied by a suppression in teh quasi-elastic (QE) scattering below 0.2 meV. These show a slowly fluctuating ground state with spins correlated over short distances within a kagome-trangular-kagome (KTK) stack along [111], which evolves to isolated kagome spin-stars at higher temperatures. Furthermore, low-temperature specific heat results indicate a sample dependence to the putative transition temperature that is bounded by 265mK, which we discuss in the context of recent mean filed theoretical analysis.
Citation
Physical Review B
Volume
84
Issue
17

Keywords

pyrochlore, neutron diffraction

Citation

Ross, K. , Yaraskavitch, L. , Laver, M. , Gardner, J. , Quilliam, J. , Meng, S. , Kycia, J. , Singh, D. , Proffen, T. , Dabkowska, H. and Gaulin, B. (2011), Dimensional Evolution of Spin Correlations in the Magnetic Pyrochlore Yb<sub>2</sub>Ti<sub>2</sub>O<sub>7</sub>, Physical Review B, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=909371 (Accessed October 11, 2024)

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Created November 29, 2011, Updated October 12, 2021