Possible gapless spin liquid in the rare-earth kagome lattice magnet Tm3Sb3Zn2O14
Possible gapless spin liquid in the rare-earth kagome lattice magnet Tm3Sb3Zn2O14
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稀土kagome晶格磁体Tm3Sb3Zn2O14中可能存在无间隙自旋液体
DOI：
10.1103/physrevb.98.174404
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发表时间：
2018-02
影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
Shu Lei
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作者：
Ding Zhao-Feng;Yang Yan-Xing;Zhang Jian;Tan Cheng;Zhu Zi-Hao;Chen Gang;Shu Lei
We report the thermodynamic and muon spin relaxation ($\mu$SR) evidences for a possible gapless spin liquid in Tm$_{3}$Sb$_{3}$Zn$_{2}$O$_{14}$, with the rare-earth ions Tm$^{3+}$ forming a two-dimensional kagom\'{e} lattice. We extract the magnetic specific heat of Tm$_{3}$Sb$_{3}$Zn$_{2}$O$_{14}$ by subtracting the phonon contribution of the non-magnetic isostructural material La$_{3}$Sb$_{3}$Zn$_{2}$O$_{14}$. We obtain a clear linear-$T$ temperature dependence of magnetic specific heat at low temperatures, with the heat-capacity coefficient $\gamma$ = 26.6(1) mJ mol-Tm$^{-1}$ K$^{-2}$ in the zero temperature limit. No long-range magnetic order was observed down to 0.35 K in the heat capacity measurement. A broad hump around 9 K was observed in the zero field magnetic specific heat and is gradually suppressed in the magnetic fields that also create a spin gap in the specific heat. The absence of magnetic order is further confirmed by the $\mu$SR measurement down to 20 mK. We find that the spin-lattice relaxation time remains constant down to the lowest temperatures. We point out that the physics in Tm$_{3}$Sb$_{3}$Zn$_{2}$O$_{14}$ is fundamentally different from the Cu-based herbertsmithite and propose spin liquid ground states with non-Kramers doublets on the kagom\'{e} lattice to account for the experimental results.
We report the thermodynamic and muon spin relaxation ($\mu$SR) evidences for a possible gapless spin liquid in Tm$_{3}$Sb$_{3}$Zn$_{2}$O$_{14}$, with the rare-earth ions Tm$^{3+}$ forming a two-dimensional kagom\'{e} lattice. We extract the magnetic specific heat of Tm$_{3}$Sb$_{3}$Zn$_{2}$O$_{14}$ by subtracting the phonon contribution of the non-magnetic isostructural material La$_{3}$Sb$_{3}$Zn$_{2}$O$_{14}$. We obtain a clear linear-$T$ temperature dependence of magnetic specific heat at low temperatures, with the heat-capacity coefficient $\gamma$ = 26.6(1) mJ mol-Tm$^{-1}$ K$^{-2}$ in the zero temperature limit. No long-range magnetic order was observed down to 0.35 K in the heat capacity measurement. A broad hump around 9 K was observed in the zero field magnetic specific heat and is gradually suppressed in the magnetic fields that also create a spin gap in the specific heat. The absence of magnetic order is further confirmed by the $\mu$SR measurement down to 20 mK. We find that the spin-lattice relaxation time remains constant down to the lowest temperatures. We point out that the physics in Tm$_{3}$Sb$_{3}$Zn$_{2}$O$_{14}$ is fundamentally different from the Cu-based herbertsmithite and propose spin liquid ground states with non-Kramers doublets on the kagom\'{e} lattice to account for the experimental results.
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