Abstract
The magnetic structure of the pyrochlore Ho2CrSbO7, which orders magnetically below 13 K, has been studied using neutron powder diffraction. Ho2CrSbO7 is found to form an “ordered spin-ice structure” where the magnetic moments are constrained along the 111 axes, but with a ferromagnetic moment in one direction. The Cr3+ ions order ferromagnetically and this is thought to lift the degeneracy of the x, y and z directions in the cubic structure causing the ferromagnetic component from the Ho3+ ions to align. The pyrochlores RE2CrSbO7 where RE=Y, Tb, Dy and Er have also been prepared and studied using SQUID magnetometry.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 171-175 |
| Journal | Journal of Solid State Chemistry |
| Volume | 215 |
| Early online date | 8 Apr 2014 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 Jul 2014 |
Keywords
- Pyrochlore
- Neutron diffraction
- Magnetic structure
- Spin-ice
- Holmium
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Absence of magnetic long range order in Y2CrSbO7: bond-disorder induced magnetic frustration in a ferromagnetic pyrochlore
Shen, L., Greaves, C., Riyat, R., Hansen, T. & Blackburn, E., 28 Sept 2017, In: Physical Review B. 96, 094438.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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