Inelastic neutron scattering studies of the quantum frustrated magnet clinoatacamite, $γ$-Cu2(OD)3Cl, a proposed valence bond solid (VBS)

Details Inelastic neutron scattering studies of the quantum frustrated magnet clinoatacamite, $γ$-Cu2(OD)3Cl, a proposed valence bond solid (VBS) Inelastic neutron scattering studies of the quantum frustrated magnet clinoatacamite, $γ$-Cu2(OD)3Cl, a proposed valence bond solid (VBS)

2009-07-07

arxiv.org/abs/0907.1230v1

J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 145 (2009) 012056

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

Proceedings of The International Conference on Highly Frustrated Magnetism 2008 (HFM2008)

Scientific paper

10.1088/1742-6596/145/1/012056

The frustrated magnet clinoatacamite, $\gamma$-Cu$_2$(OH)$_3$Cl, is attracting a lot of interest after suggestions that at low temperature it forms an exotic quantum state termed a Valence Bond Solid (VBS) made from dimerised Cu$^{2+}$ ($S=1/2$) spins.\cite{Lee_clinoatacamite} Key to the arguments surrounding this proposal were suggestions that the kagom\'e planes in the magnetic pyrochlore lattice of clinoatacamite are only weakly coupled, causing the system to behave as a quasi-2-dimensional magnet. This was reasoned from the near 95$^\circ$ angles made at the bridging oxygens that mediate exchange between the Cu ions that link the kagom\'e planes. Recent work pointed out that this exchange model is inappropriate for $\gamma$-Cu$_2$(OH)$_3$Cl, where the oxygen is present as a $\mu_3$-OH.\cite{Wills_JPC} Further, it used symmetry calculations and neutron powder diffraction to show that the low temperature magnetic structure ($T<6$ K) was canted and involved significant spin ordering on all the Cu$^{2+}$ spins, which is incompatible with the interpretation of simultaneous VBS and N\'eel ordering. Correspondingly, clinoatacamite is best considered a distorted pyrochlore magnet. In this report we show detailed inelastic neutron scattering spectra and revisit the responses of this frustrated quantum magnet.

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