Pressure dependence of the crystal field in Pr singlet ground-state systems

1978 ◽  
Vol 18 (10) ◽  
pp. 5877-5880 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. A. B. Devine
Keyword(s):  
Crystal Field ◽  
Pressure Dependence ◽  
Ground State ◽  
Singlet Ground State

scholarly journals Magnetic structures and anisotropic excitations in Tb2Ti2O7spin liquid

2014 ◽  
Vol 70 (a1) ◽  
pp. C1543-C1543
Author(s):  
Isabelle Mirebeau ◽  
Sylvain Petit ◽  
Julien Robert ◽  
Solene Guitteny ◽  
Arsen Gukasov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Crystal Field ◽  
Ground State ◽  
Mean Field ◽  
Spin Liquid ◽  
Singlet Ground State ◽  
Field Calculation ◽  
Teller Distortion ◽  
Classical Spin ◽  
Jahn Teller ◽  
Jahn Teller Distortion

Geometrical frustration in the pyrochlore lattice of corner sharing tetrahedra yields exotic short range ordered ground states known as spin liquids or spin ices. Among them, Tb2Ti2O7 spin liquid (also called quantum spin ice) remains the most mysterious, in spite of 15 years of intense investigation. Our recent single crystal experiments using neutron diffraction and inelastic scattering down to 50 mK yield new insight on this question. By applying a high magnetic field along a [111] anisotropy axis [1], the Tb moments reorient gradually without showing the magnetization plateau observed in classical spin ices. Quantitative comparison with mean field calculation supports a dynamical symmetry breaking akin to a dynamic Jahn-Teller distortion, preserving the overall cubic symmetry. In the non-Kramers Tb ion this induce a quantum mixing of the wave-functions of the ground state crystal field doublet enabling the formation of a spin liquid, viewed as a non-magnetic two-singlet ground state in this mean-field picture [2]. The spin lattice coupling also shows up in the spin fluctuations in zero field [3]. Dispersive excitations emerge from pinch-points in the reciprocal space, with anisotropic spectral weight. This is the first evidence of them in a disordered ground state. They reveal the breaking of some conservation law ruling the relative orientations of the fluctuating magnetic moments in a given tetrahedron, as for the monopole excitations in classical spin ices. The algebraic character of the correlations shows that Tb2Ti2O7 ground state is akin to a Coulomb phase. Finally, the first excited crystal field level and an acoustic phonon mode interact, repelling each other. The whole results show that the magnetoelastic coupling is a key feature to understand the surprising spin liquid ground state. They call for an interaction between quadrupolar moments, whose Jahn-Teller distortion is the first (single site) approximation.

Pressure dependence of the critical fluctuations in the singlet-ground-state system, Pr3Tl

1979 ◽  
Vol 40 (C5) ◽  
pp. C5-132-C5-133
Author(s):  
J. K. Kjems ◽  
M. Nielsen ◽  
W. J.L. Buyers ◽  
J. E. Crow
Keyword(s):  
Pressure Dependence ◽  
Ground State ◽  
State System ◽  
Singlet Ground State ◽  
Critical Fluctuations

Crystal field excitations in the singlet ground state compound Pr3In

2007 ◽  
Vol 101 (9) ◽  
pp. 09D505 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. D. Christianson ◽  
J. M. Lawrence ◽  
K. C. Littrell ◽  
E. A. Goremychkin ◽  
A. I. Kolesnikov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Crystal Field ◽  
Ground State ◽  
Singlet Ground State
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