Magnetic Correlations in the Extended KagomeProbed by Single-Crystal Neutron Scattering
- 17 July 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 103 (3), 037202
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.103.037202
Abstract
We have studied the frustrated system generally described as an alternating stacking of kagome and triangular layers of magnetic ions on a trigonal lattice, by single-crystal neutron diffraction experiments above the Néel ordering transition. Experimental data reveal pronounced magnetic diffuse scattering, which is successfully modeled by direct Monte Carlo simulations. Long-range magnetic correlations are found along the axis, due to the presence of corner-sharing bipyramids, creating quasi–one-dimensional order at finite temperature. In contrast, in the kagome layers ( plane), the spin-spin correlation function, displaying a short-range 120° configuration, decays rapidly as typically found in spin liquids. experimentally realizes a new class of two-dimensional frustrated systems where the strong out-of-plane coupling does not lift the in-plane degeneracy, but instead acts as an external “field.”
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