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Spin glass behavior in frustrated quantum spin system CuAl2O4 with a possible orbital liquid state by Nirmala, R.; Jang, Kwang-Hyun; Sim, Hasung; Cho, Hwanbeom; Lee, Junghwan; Yang, Nam-Geun; Lee, Seongsu; Ibberson, R. M.; Kakurai, K.; Matsuda, M.; Cheong, S. -W.; Streltsov, V. V. Gapontsev S. V.; Park, Je-Geun is a scholarly article available to read on EtoBox.

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CuAl2O4 is a normal spinel oxide having quantum spin, S=1/2 for Cu2+. It is a rather unique feature that the Cu2+ ions of CuAl2O4 sit at a tetrahedral position, not like the usual octahedral position for many oxides. At low temperatures, it exhibits all the thermodynamic evidence of a quantum spin glass. For example, the polycrystalline CuAl2O4 shows a cusp centered at ~2 K in the low-field dc magnetization data and a clear frequency dependence in the ac magnetic susceptibility while it displays logarithmic relaxation behavior in a time dependence of the magnetization. At the same time, there is a peak at ~2.3 K in the heat capacity, which shifts towards higher temperature with magnetic fields. On the other hand, there is no evidence of new superlattice peaks in the high-resolution neutron powder diffraction data when cooled from 40 to 0.4 K. This implies that there is no long-ranged magnetic order down to 0.4 K, thus confirming a spin glass-like ground state for CuAl2O4. Interestingly, there is no sign of structural distortion either although Cu2+ is a Jahn-Teller active ion. Thus, we claim that an orbital liquid state is the most likely ground state in CuAl2O4. Of further interes

Author

Nirmala, R.; Jang, Kwang-Hyun; Sim, Hasung; Cho, Hwanbeom; Lee, Junghwan; Yang, Nam-Geun; Lee, Seongsu; Ibberson, R. M.; Kakurai, K.; Matsuda, M.; Cheong, S. -W.; Streltsov, V. V. Gapontsev S. V.; Park, Je-Geun

Published

2017

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EN