Low temperature spin fluctuations in geometrically frustrated Yb3Ga5O12

Details Low temperature spin fluctuations in geometrically frustrated Yb3Ga5O12 Low temperature spin fluctuations in geometrically frustrated Yb3Ga5O12

2003-07-28

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0307676v1

J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 15 (2003) 4631-4639

Physics

Condensed Matter

6 pages, 5 figures

Scientific paper

10.1088/0953-8984/15/26/313

In the garnet structure compound Yb3Ga5O12, the Yb3+ ions (ground state effective spin S' = 1/2) are situated on two interpenetrating corner sharing triangular sublattices such that frustrated magnetic interactions are possible. Previous specific heat measurements evidenced the development of short range magnetic correlations below 0.5K and a lambda-transition at 54mK (Filippi et al. J. Phys. C: Solid State Physics 13 (1980) 1277). From 170-Yb M"ossbauer spectroscopy measurements down to 36mK, we find there is no static magnetic order at temperatures below that of the lambda-transition. Below 0.3K, the fluctuation frequency of the short range correlated Yb3+ moments progressively slows down and as the temperature tends to 0, the frequency tends to a quasi-saturated value of 3 x 10^9 s^-1. We also examined the Yb3+ paramagnetic relaxation rates up to 300K using 172-Yb perturbed angular correlation measurements: they evidence phonon driven processes.

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