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posted on 2018-07-03, 12:59 authored by Stefan Lebernegg, Oleg Janson, Ioannis RousochatzakisIoannis Rousochatzakis, Satoshi Nishimoto, Helge Rosner, Alexander A. Tsirlin© 2017 American Physical Society. In this joint experimental and theoretical work magnetic properties of the Cu2+ mineral szenicsite Cu3(MoO4)(OH)4 are investigated. This compound features isolated triple chains in its crystal structure, where the central chain involves an edge-sharing geometry of the CuO4 plaquettes, while the two side chains feature a corner-sharing zigzag geometry. The magnetism of the side chains can be described in terms of antiferromagnetic dimers with a coupling larger than 200 K. The central chain was found to be a realization of the frustrated antiferromagnetic J1-J2 chain model with J1≃68 K and a sizable second-neighbor coupling J2. The central and side chains are nearly decoupled owing to interchain frustration. Therefore, the low-temperature behavior of szenicsite should be entirely determined by the physics of the central frustrated J1-J2 chain. Our heat-capacity measurements reveal an accumulation of magnetic entropy at low temperatures and suggest a proximity of the system to the Majumdar-Ghosh point of the antiferromagnetic J1-J2 spin chain, J2/J1=0.5.
Funding
OJ was partly supported by the European Research Council under the European Unions Seventh Framework Program FP7/ERC through grant agreement n.306447. AT was supported by Federal Ministry for Education and Research through the Sofja Kovalevskaya Award of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. The German Research Foundation (SFB 1143)
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Physical Review BVolume
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LEBERNEGG, S. ...et al., 2017. Frustrated spin chain physics near the Majumdar-Ghosh point in szenicsite Cu3(MoO4)(OH)4. Physical Review B, 95: 035145.Publisher
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