Determination of the Magnetic Ground State of a Polycrystalline Compound Based on Susceptibility Measurements
- ORNL
- University of Utah
The diruthenium compound [Ru2(O2CMe)4]3[Cr(CN)6] contains two interpenetrating sublattices that behave like giant antiferromagnetically-coupled moments with strong anisotropy. The preferred orientations of the total moment of each sublattice are determined from susceptibility measurements on a polycrystalline sample. In agreement with previous mean-field calculations for the magnetic ground state, the fits to the experimental magnetization imply that the sublattice moments are restricted to cubic diagonals rather than the cubic axis or the edge diagonals. The parameterization of the sublattice susceptibility indicates that the sublattice spin states are more distorted when they are aligned antiparallel.
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- DOE Contract Number:
- DE-AC05-00OR22725
- OSTI ID:
- 1010576
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review B, Vol. 83, Issue 9; ISSN 1098--0121
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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