Magnetic susceptibility of the Kagome antiferromagnet ZnCu3(OH)6Cl2

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Rigol, Marcos [1 ]
Singh, Rajiv R. P.
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[1] Univ So Calif, Dept Phys & Astron, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA
[2] Univ Calif Davis, Dept Phys, Davis, CA 95616 USA
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.207204
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O4 [物理学];
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We analyze the experimental data for the magnetic susceptibility of the material ZnCu3(OH)(6)Cl-2 in terms of the Kagome Lattice Heisenberg model (KLHM), discussing possible role of impurity spins, dilution, exchange anisotropy, and both out-of-plane and in-plane Dzyloshinski-Moriya (DM) anisotropies, with explicit theoretical calculations using the numerical linked cluster method and exact diagonalization. The high-temperature experimental data are well described by the pure Heisenberg model with J=170 K. We show that the sudden upturn in the susceptibility around T=75 K is due to DM interactions. We also observe that at intermediate temperatures, below T=J, our calculated susceptibility for KLHM fits well with a power law T-0.25.
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