Physics – Condensed Matter – Strongly Correlated Electrons
Scientific paper
2011-03-16
Phys. Rev. B 83, 180407(R) (2011)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Strongly Correlated Electrons
4 pages, 4 figures. Phys. Rev. B, accepted
Scientific paper
The magnetization of two spin-1/2 kagome antiferromagnets, volborthite and vesignieite, has been measured in pulsed magnetic fields up to 68 T. A magnetization plateau is observed for each compound near the highest magnetic field. Magnetizations at saturation are approximately equal to 0.40Ms for both compounds, where Ms is the fully saturated magnetization, irrespective of a difference in the distortion of the kagome lattice between the two compounds. It should be noted that these values of magnetizations are significantly larger than Ms/3 predicted theoretically for the one-third magnetization plateau in the spin-1/2 kagome antiferromagnet. The excess magnetization over Ms/3 is nearly equal to the sum of the magnetizations gained at the second and third magnetization steps in volborthite, suggesting that there is a common origin for the excess magnetization and the magnetization steps.
Hiroi Zenji
Kindo Koichi
Matsuo Akira
Okamoto Yoshihiko
Tokunaga Masashi
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