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H D Zhou1, Cenke Xu, A M Hallas, H J Silverstein, C R Wiebe, I Umegaki, J Q Yan, T P Murphy, J-H Park, Y Qiu, J R D Copley, J S Gardner, Y Takano.
Abstract
Using magnetic, thermal, and neutron measurements on single-crystal samples, we show that Ba3CoSb2O9 is a spin-1/2 triangular-lattice antiferromagnet with the c axis as the magnetic easy axis and two magnetic phase transitions bracketing an intermediate up-up-down phase in magnetic field applied along the c axis. A pronounced extensive neutron-scattering continuum above spin-wave excitations, observed below T(N), implies that the system is in close proximity to one of two spin-liquid states that have been predicted for a 2D triangular lattice.Entities:
Year: 2012 PMID: 23368612 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.267206
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Phys Rev Lett ISSN: 0031-9007 Impact factor: 9.161