=0 long-range magnetic order in centennialite CaCu
(OD)
Cl
0.6D
O; A Spin-
perfect kagome antiferromagnet with
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Iida, Kazuki*; Yoshida, Hiroyuki*; Nakao, Akiko*; Jeschke, H. O.*; Iqbal, Y.*; Nakajima, Kenji
; Kawamura, Seiko
; Munakata, Koji*; Inamura, Yasuhiro
; Murai, Naoki
; Ishikado, Motoyuki*; Kumai, Reiji*; Okada, Takehisa*; Oda, Migaku*; Kakurai, Kazuhisa*; Matsuda, Masaaki*
Crystal and magnetic structures of the mineral centennialite CaCu
(OD)
Cl
0.6D
O are investigated by means of synchrotron X-ray diffraction and neutron diffraction measurements complemented by density functional theory (DFT) and pseudofermion functional renormalization group (PFFRG) calculations. In CaCu
(OD)
Cl
0.6D
O, Cu
ions form a geometrically perfect kagome network with antiferromagnetic
. No intersite disorder between Cu
and Ca
ions is detected. CaCu
(OD)
Cl
0.6D
O enters a magnetic long-range ordered state below
= 7.2 K, and the
=0 magnetic structure with negative vector spin chirality is obtained. The ordered moment at 0.3 K is suppressed to 0.58(2)
B. Our DFT calculations indicate the presence of antiferromagnetic
and ferromagnetic
superexchange couplings of a strength which places the system at the crossroads of three magnetic orders (at the classical level) and a spin-
PFFRG analysis shows a dominance of
=0 type magnetic correlations, consistent with and indicating proximity to the observed
=0 spin structure. The results suggest that this material is located close to a quantum critical point and is a good realization of a
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kagome antiferromagnet.