The Library
Field induced magnetic order in the frustrated magnet Gadolinium Gallium Garnet
Tools
Tools
Tools
Petrenko, Oleg, Balakrishnan, Geetha, Paul, Don McK., Yethiraj, M., McIntyre, G. J. and Wills, A. S. (2009) Field induced magnetic order in the frustrated magnet Gadolinium Gallium Garnet. In: The International Conference on Highly Frustrated Mafnetism 2008, Technische Univ, Braunschweig, Germany, September 07-12, 2008. Published in: Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Vol.145 Article no. 012026. ISSN 1742-6596. doi:10.1088/1742-6596/145/1/012026
Research output not available from this repository, contact author.
Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/145/1/012026
Abstract
Gd3Ga5O12,(GGG), has an extraordinary magnetic phase diagram, where no long range order is found down to 25 mK despite Theta(CW) approximate to 2 K. However, long range order is induced by an applied field of a round 1 T. Motivated by recent theoretical developments and the experimental results for a closely related hyperkagome system, we have performed neutron diffraction measurements on a single crystal sample of GGG in an applied magnetic field. The measurements reveal that the H - T phase diagram of GGG is much more complicated than previously assumed. The application of an external field at low T results in an intensity change for most of the magnetic peaks which can be divided into three distinct sets: ferromagnetic, commensurate antiferromagnetic, and incommensurate antiferromagnetic. The ferromagnetic peaks (e.g. (112), (440) and (220)) have intensities that increase with the field and saturate at high field. The antiferromagnetic reflections have intensities that grow in low fields, reach a maximum at an intermediate field (apart from the (002) peak which shows two local maxima) and then decrease and disappear above 2 T. These AFM peaks appear, disappear and reach maxima in different fields. We conclude that the competition between magnetic interactions and alternative ground states prevents GGG from ordering in zero field. It is, however, on the verge of ordering and an applied magnetic field can be used to crystallise ordered components. The range of ferromagnetic (FM) and antiferromagnetic (AFM) propagation vectors found reflects the complex frustration in GGG.
| Item Type: | Conference Item (Paper) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Subjects: | Q Science > QC Physics | ||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Science > Physics | ||||
| Series Name: | Journal of Physics Conference Series | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Physics: Conference Series | ||||
| Publisher: | Institute of Physics Publishing Ltd. | ||||
| ISSN: | 1742-6596 | ||||
| Editor: | Eremin, I and Brenig, W and Kremer, R and Litterst, J | ||||
| Official Date: | 2009 | ||||
| Dates: |
|
||||
| Volume: | Vol.145 | ||||
| Number of Pages: | 6 | ||||
| Page Range: | Article no. 012026 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.1088/1742-6596/145/1/012026 | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
| Conference Paper Type: | Paper | ||||
| Title of Event: | The International Conference on Highly Frustrated Mafnetism 2008 | ||||
| Type of Event: | Conference | ||||
| Location of Event: | Technische Univ, Braunschweig, Germany | ||||
| Date(s) of Event: | September 07-12, 2008 |
Data sourced from Thomson Reuters' Web of Knowledge
Request changes or add full text files to a record
Repository staff actions (login required)
 |
View Item |
