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Beyond magnons in Nd2ScNbO7: An Ising pyrochlore antiferromagnet with all in all out order and random fields (2102.13656v1)

Published 26 Feb 2021 in cond-mat.str-el

Abstract: We report the low temperature magnetic properties of Nd${3+}$ pyrochlore $\rm Nd_2ScNbO_7$. Susceptibility and magnetization show an easy-axis moment, and heat capacity reveals a phase transition to long range order at $T_N=371(2)$ mK with a fully recovered $\Delta S = R \ln(2)$, 53\% of it recovered for $T>T_N$. Elastic neutron scattering shows a long-range all-in-all-out magnetic order with low-$Q$ diffuse elastic scattering. Inelastic neutron scattering shows a low-energy flat-band, indicating a magnetic Hamiltonian similar to $\rm Nd_2Zr_2O_7$. Nuclear hyperfine excitations measured by ultra-high-resolution neutron backscattering indicates a distribution of static electronic moments below $T_N$, which may be due to B-site disorder influencing Nd crystal electric fields. Analysis of heat capacity data shows an unexpected $T$-linear or $T{3/2}$ term which is inconsistent with conventional magnon quasiparticles, but is consistent with fractionalized spinons or gapless local spin excitations. We use legacy data to show similar behavior in $\rm Nd_2Zr_2O_7$. Comparing local static moments also reveals a suppression of the nuclear Schottky anomaly in temperature, evidencing a fraction of Nd sites with nearly zero static moment, consistent with exchange-disorder-induced random singlet formation. Taken together, these measurements suggest an unusual fluctuating magnetic ground state which mimics a spin-liquid -- but may not actually be one.

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