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Unconventional spin glass behavior in the pyrochlore Mn2Sb2O7

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H. D. Zhou, C. R. Wiebe, A. Harter, Naresh S. Dalal, Jason Gardner

Abstract

The new pyrochlore Mn2Sb2O7 has been synthesized via a low-temperature method to retain cubic Fd2m symmetry. The resulting material has an unconventional spin glass state at TSG∼41 K, in the absence of detectable site disorder or a structural phase transition. A peak in the DC susceptibility at TSG, and a characteristic shift in the real part of the AC susceptibility was noted, but with a slightly more dynamic state than predicted through the typical Mydosh spin glass parameter of ΔTSG/[TSGlog(ω)]. Time-dependent magnetization measurements show glassy behavior below 41 K. Elastic neutron scattering measurements on powder samples show significant magnetic diffuse scattering from the Mn spins beneath the transition, similar to the scattering observed in the spin liquid Tb2Ti2O7. The dynamic character of Mn2Sb2O7 is inferred to arise from the frustration inherent within the pyrochlore lattice.
Citation
Journal of Physics-Condensed Matter
Volume
20
Issue
32

Keywords

pyrochlores, magnetic frustration

Citation

Zhou, H. , Wiebe, C. , Harter, A. , Dalal, N. and Gardner, J. (2008), Unconventional spin glass behavior in the pyrochlore Mn2Sb2O7, Journal of Physics-Condensed Matter, [online], https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-8984/20/32/325201, https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=610009 (Accessed December 1, 2024)

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Created July 9, 2008, Updated March 21, 2024