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Structural characterization and magnetic properties of chromium jarosite KCr3(OD)(6)(SO4)(2)

Janas, Sofie  
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Sorensen, Mathilde B.
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Andersen, Anders B. A.
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November 21, 2020
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

Potassium chromium jarosite, KCr3(OH)(6)(SO4)(2) (Cr-jarosite), is considered a promising candidate to display spin liquid behavior due to the strong magnetic frustration imposed by the crystal structure. However, the ground state magnetic properties have been debated, since Cr-jarosite is notoriously non-stoichiometric. Our study reports the magnetic properties for deuterated KCr3(OD)(6)(SO4)(2) on chemically well-defined samples, which have been characteried by a combination of powder X-ray diffraction, neutron diffraction, solid state NMR spectroscopy, and scanning electron microscopy with energy dispersive spectroscopy. Eight polycrystalline samples, which all contained only 1-3% Cr vacancies were obtained. However, significant substitution (2-27%) of potassium with H2O and/or H3O+ was observed and resulted in pronounced stacking disorder along the c-axis. A clear second-order transition to an antiferromagnetically ordered phase at T-N = 3.8(1) K with a small net moment of 0.03 mu(B) per Cr3+-ion was obtained from vibrating sample magnetometry and temperature dependent neutron diffraction. The moment is attributed to spin canting caused by the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction. Thus, our experimental results imply that even ideal potassium chromium jarosite will exhibit magnetic order below 4 K and therefore it does not qualify as a true spin liquid material.

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research article
DOI
10.1039/d0cp04978f
Web of Science ID

WOS:000588601200012

Author(s)
Janas, Sofie  
Sorensen, Mathilde B.
Andersen, Anders B. A.
Juelsholt, Mikkel
Boehm, Martin
Pedersen, Kasper S.
Jensen, Kirsten M. O.
Lefmann, Kim
Nielsen, Ulla Gro
Date Issued

2020-11-21

Publisher

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY

Published in
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
Volume

22

Issue

43

Start page

25001

End page

25010

Subjects

Chemistry, Physical

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Physics, Atomic, Molecular & Chemical

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Chemistry

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Physics

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kagome

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pure

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spin

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na

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antiferromagnets

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environments

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disorder

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series

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order

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fe

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