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Article Dans Une Revue Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics (1998-2015) Année : 2015

Nd2Sn2O7: An all-in-all-out pyrochlore magnet with no divergence-free field and anomalously slow paramagnetic spin dynamics

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We report measurements performed on a polycrystalline sample of the pyrochlore compound Nd2Sn2O7. It undergoes a second order magnetic phase transition at T-c approximate to 0.91 K to a noncoplanar all-in-all-out magnetic structure of the Nd3+ magnetic moments. The thermal behavior of the low temperature specific heat fingerprints excitations with linear dispersion in a three-dimensional lattice. The temperature independent spin-lattice relaxation rate measured below T-c and the anomalously slow paramagnetic spin dynamics detected up to approximate to 30T(c) are suggested to be due to magnetic short-range correlations in unidimensional spin clusters, i.e., spin loops. The observation of a spontaneous field in muon spin relaxation measurements is associated with the absence of a divergence-free field for the ground state of an all-in-all-out pyrochlore magnet as predicted recently.

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hal-01587151 , version 1 (13-09-2017)

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Alexandre Bertin, Pierre Dalmas de Reotier, Bjorn Fak, Christophe Marin, Alain Yaouanc, et al.. Nd2Sn2O7: An all-in-all-out pyrochlore magnet with no divergence-free field and anomalously slow paramagnetic spin dynamics. Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics (1998-2015), 2015, 92 (14), pp.144423. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevB.92.144423⟩. ⟨hal-01587151⟩
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