Ba8CoNb6 O24: A spin- 12 triangular-lattice Heisenberg antiferromagnet in the two-dimensional limit

R. Rawl, L. Ge, H. Agrawal, Y. Kamiya, C. R. Dela Cruz, N. P. Butch, X. F. Sun, M. Lee, E. S. Choi, J. Oitmaa, C. D. Batista, M. Mourigal, H. D. Zhou, J. Ma

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Abstract

The perovskite Ba8CoNb6O24 comprises equilateral effective spin-12 Co2+ triangular layers separated by six nonmagnetic layers. Susceptibility, specific heat, and neutron scattering measurements combined with high-temperature series expansions and spin-wave calculations confirm that Ba8CoNb6O24 is basically a two-dimensional magnet with no detectable spin anisotropy and no long-range magnetic ordering down to 0.06 K. In other words, Ba8CoNb6O24 is very close to be a realization of the paradigmatic spin-12 triangular Heisenberg model, which is not expected to exhibit symmetry breaking at finite temperatures according to the Mermin and Wagner theorem.

Original languageEnglish
Article number060412
JournalPhysical Review B
Volume95
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 17 2017

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Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences1350002

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