Sept. 14 th 2004 Montauk, Long Island, NY Jason S. Gardner NIST, Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD Department of Physics, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY Neutron Scattering Studies of Magnetically Frustrated Pyrochlores
Pyrochlore Lattice ?
Diffuse Scattering (0,0,l) (h,h,0) Tb 2 Ti 2 O 7 JS Gardner et al., Phys. Rev. B 64, (2001). Y 2 Mo 2 O 7 J S Gardner et al., Phys. Rev. Lett., 83, 211 (1999). Ho 2 Ti 2 O 7 ST Bramwell et al. PRL 87, (2001). S.-H. Lee et al. Nature 418, 856 (2002)
Outline Spin dynamics Spin dynamics 3 Compounds 3 Compounds Antiferromagnetic frustrated systems Antiferromagnetic frustrated systems –Yb 2 Ti 2 O 7, Gd 2 Ti 2 O 7 »Strange dynamics and partial ordering Ferromagnetic frustrated systems Ferromagnetic frustrated systems –Ho 2 Ti 2 O 7 »Spin Ice (Uniquely frozen)
Sept. 14 th 2004 Montauk, Long Island, NY Spin Echo Principle I(Q,t) = I S(Q, )cos( t)d Cosine transform
New Spectrometer
Typical Magnetic Neutron Spin Echo K 22.5K 18.9K 10.0K S(Q,t)/S(Q,0) Time (ns) 50 % M/H (emu/mol) Temperature (K) 22.5 K ZFC FC
Sept. 14 th 2004 Montauk, Long Island, NY Spin Ice
FM Spin Ices – RE 2 Ti 2 O 7 (Ho and Dy) K. Matsuhira et al., J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 12 (2000) L649–L656 and 13 (2001) L737-L746 Ho 2 Ti 2 O 7
FM Spin Ice
Correlation J Snyder et al. PRB (2004) Mag (arb. units) Ho 2 Ti 2 O 7 Dy 2 Ti 2 O 7
Spin Echo Results
New Spectrometer New territory
New Data
Sept. 14 th 2004 Montauk, Long Island, NY Partial Order Gd 2 Ti 2 O 7 -- ½ filled orbital -- Experimental realisation of a Heisenberg spin on a pyrochlore lattice -- found to order???? -- very anisotropic??
Gd 2 Ti 2 O 7 - Partially ordered A. P. Ramirez, et al.. Rev. Lett. 89, (2002) 1.1K 0.7K
Powder diffraction
Magnetic Structure 1k 4k
NPD (Champion et al. Rev. B 64, (2001)) Kagome Planes INTERSTITIAL SITE ∑ = 0 N=1 ∞
0.77 K Transition
50 mK Structure 1k 4k RED circles BLUE balls
0.77 K Transition
What else do we know…. A. P. Ramirez, et al.. Rev. Lett. 89, (2002) (000) (½½½)
Neutron Spin Echo (preliminary results) ¾ ¼ T > 1K Entire spin system is inelastic and T < 1K 25% of the spin system is static REM: NPD revealed 75% of the system is static below the 1 st transition; At all T, NSE fits results in a S(Q,t)/S(q,0) as t 0 of 75%.
Sept. 14 th 2004 Montauk, Long Island, NY More Unusual Magnetism -Yb 2 Ti 2 O 7
Yb 2 Ti 2 O 7
New Data
Conclusions 6 6 Exotic Magnetic Order 6 6 Large moment systems 6 6 Big crystals NSE ideal time ( ) window
Sept. 14 th 2004 Montauk, Long Island, NY Collaborators G Ehlers (SNS) A Cornelius (UNLV) R Stewart (ILL) S Bramwell, A Wills and T Fennell(UCL) Nick Rosov (NIST)