04. 10. 2023 14:10

Andrej Kancko » Expanding the library of pyrochlore fluoride antiferromagnets: Structure and magnetic properties of NaCdM2F7 (M = Ni, Mn, Co, Cu)

DCMP, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Ke Karlovu 5, 121 16 Prague 2

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Location: Lecture room F2, 1st floor, Ke Karlovu 5, Prague 2

The A2B2X7 pyrochlores (X = O, F), materials containing A- & B-site sublattices of corner-sharing tetrahedra, offer a rich playground in the frustrated magnetism community due to the plethora of exotic magnetic ground-states (eg., spin-ice, spin-glass and spin-liquid states). In particular, the utilization of low-spin (S = ½) magnetic ions on the pyrochlore lattice is of interest due to their large quantum fluctuations at low temperature, which serve to destabilize long-range magnetic order, potentially resulting in a disordered, dynamic highly-correlated quantum spin-liquid ground-state. I will present the structural, magnetic and thermodynamic properties of the new pyrochlore fluoride family NaCdM2F7  (M = Ni, Mn, Co, Cu), setting the main focus on the most interesting members of this family with low-spin magnetic ions Cu (NaCdCu2F7, S = ½ - quantum spin liquid candidate) and Co (NaCdCo2F7, S_eff = ½ - spin glass below Tf = 4.0 K), comparing them with the previously investigated members.

Seminar on Magnetism

Group of Magnetism and MGML organizes a regular magnetism seminar.

Usually, we meet
every Wednesday at 14:10
in lecture room F2
Ke Karlovu 5, 121 16 Praha 2.

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