| Issue |
EPL
Volume 81, Number 1, January 2008
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|---|---|---|
| Article Number | 17006 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| Section | Condensed Matter: Electronic Structure, Electrical, Magnetic and Optical Properties | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/81/17006 | |
| Published online | 19 November 2007 | |
Spin-liquid behavior in a kagomé antiferromagnet: Deuteronium jarosite
1
Département de Recherche Fondamentale sur la Matière Condensée, SPSMS, CEA Grenoble - 38054 Grenoble, France
2
ISIS Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory - Chilton, Oxfordshire OX11 0QX, England, UK
3
School of Chemistry and EaStChem, The University of Edinburgh, The King's Buildings West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JJ, Scotland, UK
4
Department of Physics, University of Warwick - Coventry CV4 7AL, England, UK
Received:
16
August
2007
Accepted:
29
October
2007
The spin dynamics of the frustrated quasi
two-dimensional spin-
Heisenberg antiferromagnetic kagomé compound deuteronium jarosite, (D3O)Fe3(SO4)2(OD)6, has been studied using inelastic neutron scattering. The dynamic magnetic susceptibility shows a clear spin-liquid behavior with strong dynamic short-range correlations with staggered chirality, as seen from the wave vector dependence at finite-energy transfers. The magnetic scattering at low temperatures is gapless and extends out to at least 20 meV. The dynamics shows a non-exponential relaxation behavior but no dynamical 
scaling. The characteristic energy (inverse relaxation rate) increases linearly with temperature.
PACS: 75.40.Gb – Dynamic properties (dynamic susceptibility, spin waves, spin diffusion, dynamic scaling, etc.) / 75.25.+z – Spin arrangements in magnetically ordered materials (including neutron and spin-polarized electron studies, synchrotron-source X-ray scattering, etc.) / 78.70.Nx – Neutron inelastic scattering
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