Gapless Spin Liquid Ground State in the S=1/2 Vanadium Oxyfluoride Kagome Antiferromagnet [NH4]2[C7H14N][V7O6F18]

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作者
Clark, L. [1 ,2 ]
Orain, J. C. [3 ]
Bert, F. [3 ]
De Vries, M. A. [1 ,2 ]
Aidoudi, F. H. [4 ]
Morris, R. E. [4 ]
Lightfoot, P. [4 ]
Lord, J. S. [5 ]
Telling, M. T. F. [5 ,6 ]
Bonville, P. [7 ]
Attfield, J. P. [1 ,2 ]
Mendels, P. [3 ,8 ]
Harrison, A. [1 ,2 ,9 ]
机构
[1] Univ Edinburgh, CSEC, Edinburgh EH9 3JZ, Midlothian, Scotland
[2] Univ Edinburgh, Sch Chem, Edinburgh EH9 3JZ, Midlothian, Scotland
[3] Univ Paris 11, CNRS, UMR, Phys Solides Lab, F-91504 Orsay, France
[4] Univ St Andrews, Sch Chem & EaSTChem, St Andrews KY16 9ST, Fife, Scotland
[5] Rutherford Appleton Lab, ISIS Facil, Didcot OX11 0QX, Oxon, England
[6] Univ Oxford, Dept Mat, Oxford OX1 3PH, England
[7] CEA, CNRS, Serv Phys Etat Condense, CE Saclay, F-91191 Gif Sur Yvette, France
[8] Inst Univ France, F-75005 Paris, France
[9] Inst Laue Langevin, F-38042 Grenoble 9, France
基金
英国工程与自然科学研究理事会;
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D O I
10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.207208
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
The vanadium oxyfluoride [NH4](2)[C7H14N][V7O6F18] (DQVOF) is a geometrically frustrated magnetic bilayer material. The structure consists of S = 1/2 kagome planes of V4+ d(1) ions with S = 1 V3+ d(2) ions located between the kagome layers. Muon spin relaxation measurements demonstrate the absence of spin freezing down to 40 mK despite an energy scale of 60 K for antiferromagnetic exchange interactions. From magnetization and heat capacity measurements we conclude that the S = 1 spins of the interplane V3+ ions are weakly coupled to the kagome layers, such that DQVOF can be viewed as an experimental model for S = 1/2 kagome physics, and that it displays a gapless spin liquid ground state.
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