Putative spin-nematic phase in BaCdVO(PO4)2

Skoulatos, M.; Rucker, F.; Nilsen, G. J.; Bertin, A.; Pomjakushina, E.; Olliver, J.; Schneidewind, A.; Georgii, R.; Zaharko, O.; Keller, L.; Rüeegg, Ch.; Pfleiderer, C.; Schmidt, B.; Shannon, N.; Kriele, A.; Senyshyn, A.; Smerald, A.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.100.014405

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Putative spin-nematic phase in BaCdVO(PO₄)₂

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Schmidt, B.
Burkhard Schmidt, Physics of Quantum Materials, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Max Planck Society;

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Skoulatos, M., Rucker, F., Nilsen, G. J., Bertin, A., Pomjakushina, E., Olliver, J., et al. (2019). Putative spin-nematic phase in BaCdVO(PO₄)₂. Physical Review B, 100(1): 014405, pp. 1-5. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.100.014405.

Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0004-82B7-A

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We report neutron-scattering and ac magnetic susceptibility measurements of the two-dimensional spin-1/2 frustrated magnet BaCdVO(PO4)(2). At temperatures well below T-N approximate to 1 K, we show that only 34% of the spin moment orders in an up-up-down-down stripe structure. Dominant magnetic diffuse scattering and comparison to published muon-spin-rotation measurements indicates that the remaining 66% is fluctuating. This demonstrates the presence of strong frustration, associated with competing ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic interactions, and points to a subtle ordering mechanism driven by magnon interactions. On applying magnetic field, we find that at T = 0.1 K the magnetic order vanishes at 3.8 T, whereas magnetic saturation is reached only above 4.5 T. We argue that the putative high-field phase is a realization of the long-sought bond-spin-nematic state.