Transition and spin dynamics at very low temperature in the pyrochlores Yb2Ti2O7 and Gd2Sn2O7

Details Transition and spin dynamics at very low temperature in the pyrochlores Yb2Ti2O7 and Gd2Sn2O7 Transition and spin dynamics at very low temperature in the pyrochlores Yb2Ti2O7 and Gd2Sn2O7

2003-06-18

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0306470v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

20 pages, 18 figures, proceedings of the Zakopane School of Physics (2003)

Scientific paper

10.1023/B:HYPE.0000043235.21257.

The very low temperature properties of two pyrochlore compounds, Yb2Ti2O7 and Gd2Sn2O7, were investigated using an ensemble of microscopic and bulk techniques. In both compounds, a first order transition is evidenced, as well as spin dynamics persisting down to the 20mK range. The transition however has a quite different character in the two materials: whereas that in Gd2Sn2O7$ (at 1K) is a magnetic transition towards long range order, that in Yb2Ti2O7 (at 0.24K) is reminiscent of the liquid-gas transition, in the sense that it involves a 4 orders of magnitude drop of the spin fluctuation frequency; furthermore, no long range order is observed. These unusual features we attribute to frustration of the antiferromagnetic exchange interaction in the pyrochlore lattice.

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