TY - JOUR
T1 - Gapless magnetic excitations in the kagome antiferromagnet Ca-kapellasite probed by Cl 35 NMR spectroscopy
AU - Ihara, Y.
AU - Sasaki, T.
AU - Noguchi, N.
AU - Ishii, Y.
AU - Oda, M.
AU - Yoshida, H.
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to acknowledge J. Ohara for fruitful discussions. This work was partly performed at the High Field Laboratory for Superconducting Materials, Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University (Projects No. 15H0026 and No. 16H0003). This study was partly supported by the Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Young Scientist B (JP15K17686) and Fusion-H program from Hokkaido University.
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© 2017 American Physical Society.
PY - 2017/11/14
Y1 - 2017/11/14
N2 - The low-energy magnetic excitations of the spin-1/2 kagome antiferromagnet CaCu3(OH)6Cl2·0.6H2O (Ca-kapellasite) have been investigated by a Cl35 NMR experiment in fields up to 18.9 T. Recently, Ca-kapellasite was found to be one of the most promising candidates to explore the intrinsic magnetic properties in kagome antiferromagnets, because magnetic defects, which deteriorate the intrinsic magnetic properties, are minimized by choosing Ca ions with a large ionic radius as the counterions. From our nuclear spin-lattice relaxation rate 1/T1 measurement, we found a power-law temperature dependence below the magnetic ordering temperature TM=7.2 K, which leads us to suggest that gapless magnetic excitations survive even in the ordered state. This power-law behavior is suppressed in high magnetic fields. We discuss a possible magnetic state that can generate gapless excitations at low fields.
AB - The low-energy magnetic excitations of the spin-1/2 kagome antiferromagnet CaCu3(OH)6Cl2·0.6H2O (Ca-kapellasite) have been investigated by a Cl35 NMR experiment in fields up to 18.9 T. Recently, Ca-kapellasite was found to be one of the most promising candidates to explore the intrinsic magnetic properties in kagome antiferromagnets, because magnetic defects, which deteriorate the intrinsic magnetic properties, are minimized by choosing Ca ions with a large ionic radius as the counterions. From our nuclear spin-lattice relaxation rate 1/T1 measurement, we found a power-law temperature dependence below the magnetic ordering temperature TM=7.2 K, which leads us to suggest that gapless magnetic excitations survive even in the ordered state. This power-law behavior is suppressed in high magnetic fields. We discuss a possible magnetic state that can generate gapless excitations at low fields.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevB.96.180409
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevB.96.180409
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85038835364
SN - 2469-9950
VL - 96
JO - Physical Review B
JF - Physical Review B
IS - 18
M1 - 180409
ER -