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Frustrated Magnetism in a 2-D Ytterbium Fluoride

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posted on 2019-08-23, 21:13 authored by Ningxin Jiang, Henry S. La Pierre
Geometric frustration of magnetic ions combines with spin–orbit coupling and structural disorder to give rise to potentially, highly entangled magnetic states such as quantum spin liquids. While fluoride-based frustrated magnets are common in the d-block, in the f-block, fluoride-based frustrated magnets are extremely rare. Herein, we report the synthesis of KYb2F5SO4, a fluoride-based distorted triangular lattice antiferromagnet with no structural disorder but significant geometric distortion from an ideal triangular lattice. In KYb2F5SO4, no long-range ordering can be observed down to 0.10 K, and the low-temperature Curie–Weiss temperature θcw = −0.46(2) K yields a frustration parameter of greater than 4.6. The magnetic entropy released at low temperature indicates an effective spin-1/2 Kramer’s doublet ground state. However, the low saturation field and incomplete recovery of magnetic entropy down to 0.10 K under zero-field imply weak quantum entanglement.

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