Orbital physics in sulfur spinels: ordered, liquid and glassy ground states

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Dec 2004

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New Journal of Physics, Volume 6, Issue 1, pp. 191 (2004).

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Measurements of magnetization M(T, H), heat capacity C(T), NMR lineshift K(T) and linewidth Δ(T), neutron scattering S(Q, ω, T) and broadband dielectric spectroscopy epsi(ω, T) provide experimental evidence of the different orbital ground states in the cubic sulfur spinels under investigation. In all compounds, the tetrahedrally coordinated Jahn Teller ions Fe2+ are characterized by a degeneracy of the orbital degrees of freedom. Particularly, we found a long-range orbital ordering in polycrystalline (PC) FeCr2S4, and a glassy freezing of the orbital degrees of freedom in FeCr2S4 (single crystals) (SCs). In contrast, FeSc2S4 belongs to the rare class of spin orbital liquids, where quantum fluctuations accompanying the glassy freezing of the orbitals suppress long-range magnetic order.

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