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Magnetic ordering in the spin-ice candidate Ho2Ru 2O7

  • C. R. Wiebe
  • , J. S. Gardner
  • , S. J. Kim
  • , G. M. Luke
  • , A. S. Wills
  • , B. D. Gaulin
  • , J. E. Greedan
  • , I. Swainson
  • , Y. Qiu
  • , C. Y. Jones

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Abstract

The magnetic ordering transitions in spin-ice candidate material Ho 2Ru2O7, which reveals two magnetic transitions at T ∼95 and ∼1.4K to long-range ordered states, were analyzed. A commercial SQUID magnetometer was used to measure magnetic properties between 2 and 600 K. Although there was short-ranged ordered state on Ho3+ sites well above 1.4K, it was found that Ru4+ ordering was enough of a perturbation of fragile spin-ice state to induce ordering upon Ho3+ site and drive system to order. The results show that Ho3+ ordering found in Ho2Ru2O7 is due to small internal field produced by the Ru4+ ordering.

Original languageEnglish
Article number076403
Pages (from-to)076403-1-076403-4
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume93
Issue number7
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 13 2004
Externally publishedYes

Funding

C. R. W. would like to acknowledge support from NSERC in the form of a PDF. The authors would like to thank the financial support of NSERC, EMK, and CIAR. This work utilized facilities supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Agreement No. DMR-0086210. Work at Brookhaven is supported by the Division of Material Sciences, U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-98CH10996. The authors are also grateful for the technical support of the NPMR staff at Chalk River and Ross Erwin at NIST. A critical reading of this paper by Professor Gingras is appreciated.

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