Partitioning the Two-Leg Spin Ladder in Ba2Cu1 – xZnxTeO6: From Magnetic Order through Spin-Freezing to Paramagnetism
| Autor: | Charlotte Pughe, Otto H. J. Mustonen, Alexandra S. Gibbs, Stephen Lee, Rhea Stewart, Ben Gade, Chennan Wang, Hubertus Luetkens, Anna Foster, Fiona C. Coomer, Hidenori Takagi, Edmund J. Cussen |
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| Přispěvatelé: | EPSRC, University of St Andrews. School of Chemistry, University of St Andrews. Centre for Designer Quantum Materials, University of St Andrews. School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews. Condensed Matter Physics |
| Rok vydání: | 2023 |
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| Zdroj: | Chemistry of Materials. 35:2752-2761 |
| ISSN: | 1520-5002 0897-4756 |
| DOI: | 10.1021/acs.chemmater.2c02939 |
| Popis: | E.J.C., O.M., and C.P. acknowledge financial support from the Leverhulme Trust Research Project Grant No. RPG-2017-109. O.M. is grateful for funding via the Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship ECF-2021-170. A.S.G. acknowledges funding through an EPSRC Early Career Fellowship EP/ T011130/1. A.S.G. and H.T. acknowledge funding through the Humboldt Foundation and the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research. The authors thank the Science and Technology Facilities Council for beamtime allocated at ISIS through proposal RB1990046 (DOI: 10. 5286/ISIS.E.RB1990046) and the Swiss Muon Source at the Paul Scherrer Institute through proposal numbers 20150959 and 20211440. The authors are grateful for access to the MPMS3 instrument at The Royce Discovery Centre at the University of Sheffield (EPSRC grant no. EP/R00661X/1) and the PPMS instrument at the University of St. Andrews (EPSRC grant no. EP/T031441/1). Ba2CuTeO6 has attracted significant attention as it contains a two-leg spin ladder of Cu2+ cations that lies in close proximity to a quantum critical point. Recently, Ba2CuTeO6 has been shown to accommodate chemical substitutions, which can significantly tune its magnetic behavior. Here, we investigate the effects of substitution for non-magnetic Zn2+ impurities at the Cu2+ site, partitioning the spin ladders. Results from bulk thermodynamic and local muon magnetic characterization on the Ba2Cu1 – xZnxTeO6 solid solution (0 ≤ x ≤ 0.6) indicate that Zn2+ partitions the Cu2+ spin ladders into clusters and can be considered using the percolation theory. As the average cluster size decreases with increasing Zn2+ substitution, there is an evolving transition from long-range order to spin-freezing as the critical cluster size is reached between x = 0.1 to x = 0.2, beyond which the behavior became paramagnetic. This demonstrates well-controlled tuning of the magnetic disorder, which is highly topical across a range of low-dimensional Cu2+-based materials. However, in many of these cases, the chemical disorder is also relatively strong in contrast to Ba2CuTeO6 and its derivatives. Therefore, Ba2Cu1 – xZnxTeO6 provides an ideal model system for isolating the effect of defects and segmentation in low-dimensional quantum magnets. Publisher PDF |
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