Spin-glass and non–spin-glass features of a geometrically frustrated magnet
S.-H. Lee; C. Broholm; G. Aeppli; A. P. Ramirez; T. G. Perring; C. J. Carlile; M. Adams; T. J. L. Jones; B. Hessen
Журнал:
EPL (Europhysics Letters)
Дата:
1996-07-10
Аннотация:
We use neutron scattering to show that the low-temperature, short-range ordered spin configuration in the geometrically frustrated magnet SrCr<sub>9p</sub>Ga<sub>12 − 9p</sub>O<sub>19</sub> (p = 0.92(5)) is composed of small groups of spins whose dipole moments cancel. The local magnetic fluctuation spectrum, χ<sup>′′</sup>(ω), vanishes approximately in proportion to ω for ℏω < 0.5 meV, distinguishing this magnet from conventional spin glasses which display a featureless continuum of excited states. We argue that this behavior results from the absence of local, low-energy excitations in the zero-spin clusters from which the frozen spin configuration is composed.
580.1Кб