Non-magnetic ion site disorder effects on the quantum magnetism of a spin-1/2 equilateral triangular lattice antiferromagnet

Huang, Q.; Rawl, R.; Xie, W. W.; Chou, E. S.; Zapf, V. S.; Ding, X. X.; Mauws, C.; Wiebe, C. R.; Feng, E. X.; Cao, H. B.; Tian, W.; Ma, J.; Qiu, Y.; Butch, N.; Zhou, H. D.

doi:10.1088/1361-648x/ac5703

Title: Non-magnetic ion site disorder effects on the quantum magnetism of a spin-1/2 equilateral triangular lattice antiferromagnet

Journal Article · Thu Mar 10 00:00:00 EST 2022 · Journal of Physics. Condensed Matter

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-648x/ac5703· OSTI ID:1872842

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Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ (United States)
Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL (United States)
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Univ. of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB (Canada)
Univ. of Manitoba, Winnipeg (Canada); Univ. of Winnipeg, Manitoba (Canada)
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ. (China); Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Shenyang (China)
National Inst. of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD (United States)
Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States); Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL (United States)

Here, with the motivation to study how non-magnetic ion site disorder affects the quantum magnetism of Ba₃CoSb₂O₉, a spin-1/2 equilateral triangular lattice antiferromagnet, we performed DC and AC susceptibility, specific heat, elastic and inelastic neutron scattering measurements on single crystalline samples of Ba_2.87Sr_0.13CoSb₂O₉ with Sr doping on non-magnetic Ba²⁺ ion sites. The results show that Ba_2.87Sr_0.13CoSb₂O₉ exhibits (i) a two-step magnetic transition at 2.7 K and 3.3 K, respectively; (ii) a possible canted 120 degree spin structure at zero field with reduced ordered moment as 1.24 μ_B/Co; (iii) a series of spin state transitions for both H∥ab-plane and H∥c-axis. For H∥ab-plane, the magnetization plateau feature related to the up–up–down phase is significantly suppressed; (iv) an inelastic neutron scattering spectrum with only one gapped mode at zero field, which splits to one gapless and one gapped mode at 9 T. All these features are distinctly different from those observed for the parent compound Ba₃CoSb₂O₉, which demonstrates that the non-magnetic ion site disorder (the Sr doping) plays a complex role on the magnetic properties beyond the conventionally expected randomization of the exchange interactions. We propose the additional effects including the enhancement of quantum spin fluctuations and introduction of a possible spatial anisotropy through the local structural distortions.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Science Foundation (NSF); National Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC); Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI); Beckman Young Investigator Award; National Science Foundation of China

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725; DMR-2003117; DMR-1157490; DMR-1508249; 11774223; U2032213

OSTI ID:: 1872842

Journal Information:: Journal of Physics. Condensed Matter, Vol. 34, Issue 20; ISSN 0953-8984

Publisher:: IOP PublishingCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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