Relieving the frustration through Mn3+ substitution in Holmium Gallium Garnet
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Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
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2469-9950
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APS
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Mukherjee, P., Glass, H., Suard, E., & Dutton, S. (2017). Relieving the frustration through Mn3+ substitution in Holmium Gallium Garnet. Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.96.140412
Abstract
We present a study on the impact of Mn3+ substitution in the geometrically frustrated Ising garnet Ho3Ga5O12 using bulk magnetic measurements and low temperature powder neutron diffraction. We find that the transition temperature, TN = 5.8 K, for Ho3MnGa4O12 is raised by almost 20 when compared to Ho3Ga5O12. Powder neutron diffraction on Ho3MnxGa5-xO12 (x = 0.5, 1) below TN shows the formation of a long range ordered ordered state with k = (0,0,0). Ho3+ spins are aligned antiferromagnetically along the six crystallographic axes with no resultant moment while the Mn3+ spins are oriented along the body diagonals, such that there is a net moment along [111]. The magnetic structure can be visualised as ten-membered rings of corner-sharing triangles of Ho3+ spins with the Mn3+ spins ferromagnetically coupled to each individual Ho3+ spin in the triangle. Substitution of Mn3+ completely relieves the magnetic frustration with f = CW/TN ~ 1.1 for Ho3MnGa4O12.
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Is supplemented by: https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.13758
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We acknowledge funding support from the Winton Programme for the Physics of Sustainability. Magnetic measurements were carried out using the Advanced Materials Characterisation Suite, funded by EPSRC Strategic Equipment Grant EP1M00052411.
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EPSRC (EP/M000524/1)
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External DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.96.140412
This record's URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/275128
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