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Structure, Spin Correlations, and Magnetism of the S=1/2 Square-Lattice Antiferromagnet Sr2CuTe1-xWxO6 (0 ≤ x ≤ 1)

Mustonen, Otto H. J.
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Fogh, Ellen  
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Paddison, Joseph A. M.
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December 25, 2023
Chemistry Of Materials

Quantum spin liquids are highly entangled magnetic states with exotic properties. The S = 1/2 square-lattice Heisenberg model is one of the foundational models in frustrated magnetism with a predicted, but never observed, quantum spin liquid state. Isostructural double perovskites Sr2CuTeO6 and Sr2CuWO6 are physical realizations of this model but have distinctly different types of magnetic order and interactions due to a d(10)/d(0) effect. Long-range magnetic order is suppressed in the solid solution Sr2CuTe1-xWxO6 in a wide region of x = 0.05-0.6, where the ground state has been proposed to be a disorder-induced spin liquid. Here, we present a comprehensive neutron scattering study of this system. We show using polarized neutron scattering that the spin liquid-like x = 0.2 and x = 0.5 samples have distinctly different local spin correlations, which suggests that they have different ground states. Low-temperature neutron diffraction measurements of the magnetically ordered W-rich samples reveal magnetic phase separation, which suggests that the previously ignored interlayer coupling between the square planes plays a role in the suppression of magnetic order at x approximate to 0.6. These results highlight the complex magnetism of Sr2CuTe1-xWxO6 and hint at a new quantum critical point between 0.2 < x < 0.4.

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DOI
10.1021/acs.chemmater.3c02535
Web of Science ID

WOS:001139480600001

Author(s)
Mustonen, Otto H. J.
Fogh, Ellen  
Paddison, Joseph A. M.
Mangin-Thro, Lucile
Hansen, Thomas
Playford, Helen Y.
Diaz-Lopez, Maria
Babkevich, Peter  
Vasala, Sami
Karppinen, Maarit
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Date Issued

2023-12-25

Publisher

Amer Chemical Soc

Published in
Chemistry Of Materials
Volume

36

Issue

1

Start page

501

End page

513

Subjects

Physical Sciences

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Technology

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Bilbao Crystallographic Server

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Mu-Sr

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Scattering

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State

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Superconductivity

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Visualization

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Spectrometer

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Refinement

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Separation

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Crystal

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REVIEWED

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EPFL

EPFL units
LQM  
FunderGrant Number

Basic Energy Sciences

ECF-2021-170

Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship

RPG-2017-109

Leverhulme Trust

810451

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February 21, 2024
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/205022
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