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Fujihara, Masayoshi; Jeschke, H. O.*; Morita, Katsuhiro*; Kuwai, Tomohiko*; Koda, Akihiro*; Okabe, Hirotaka*; Matsuo, Akira*; Kindo, Koichi*; Mitsuda, Setsuo*
Physical Review Materials (Internet), 6(11), p.114408_1 - 114408_8, 2022/11
Times Cited Count:2 Percentile:12.90(Materials Science, Multidisciplinary) = 1/2 Heisenberg
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chain antiferromagnets have been investigated extensively due to their exotic magnetic states. Here, we report the magnetic behavior of birchite Cd
Cu
(PO
)
SO
5H
O and its effective spin model. Experimental studies by magnetic susceptibility, magnetization, heat capacity, and
SR measurements indicate the absence of long-range order down to 0.4 K. Theoretical studies reveal that birchite is a model compound for the
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antiferromagnetic chain: the intrachain interactions
and
are antiferromagnetic and their magnitude is about 100 times larger than the interchain interactions. The magnitude of
is two to three times larger than that of
, thus the spin gap is expected to be only a few percent of that of
. The temperature dependence of the specific heat shows a broad peak at about 1 K (
0.036
), which suggests the presence of a spin gap.
Iida, Kazuki*; Yoshida, Hiroyuki*; Nakao, Akiko*; Jeschke, H. O.*; Iqbal, Y.*; Nakajima, Kenji; Kawamura, Seiko; Munakata, Koji*; Inamura, Yasuhiro; Murai, Naoki; et al.
Physical Review B, 101(22), p.220408_1 - 220408_6, 2020/06
Times Cited Count:28 Percentile:79.33(Materials Science, Multidisciplinary)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.