Pughe, C., Mustonen, O.H.J. orcid.org/0000-0002-3896-9875, Gibbs, A.S. orcid.org/0000-0002-7012-1831 et al. (9 more authors) (2023) Partitioning the two-leg spin ladder in Ba2Cu1 – xZnxTeO6: from magnetic order through spin-freezing to paramagnetism. Chemistry of Materials, 35 (7). pp. 2752-2761. ISSN 0897-4756
Abstract
Ba2CuTeO6 has attracted significant attention as it contains a two-leg spin ladder of Cu2+ cations that lies in close proximity to a quantum critical point. Recently, Ba2CuTeO6 has been shown to accommodate chemical substitutions, which can significantly tune its magnetic behavior. Here, we investigate the effects of substitution for non-magnetic Zn2+ impurities at the Cu2+ site, partitioning the spin ladders. Results from bulk thermodynamic and local muon magnetic characterization on the Ba2Cu1 - xZnxTeO6 solid solution (0 ≤ x ≤ 0.6) indicate that Zn2+ partitions the Cu2+ spin ladders into clusters and can be considered using the percolation theory. As the average cluster size decreases with increasing Zn2+ substitution, there is an evolving transition from long-range order to spin-freezing as the critical cluster size is reached between x = 0.1 to x = 0.2, beyond which the behavior became paramagnetic. This demonstrates well-controlled tuning of the magnetic disorder, which is highly topical across a range of low-dimensional Cu2+-based materials. However, in many of these cases, the chemical disorder is also relatively strong in contrast to Ba2CuTeO6 and its derivatives. Therefore, Ba2Cu1 - xZnxTeO6 provides an ideal model system for isolating the effect of defects and segmentation in low-dimensional quantum magnets.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2023 The Authors. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. | ||||
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield | ||||
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Engineering (Sheffield) > Department of Materials Science and Engineering (Sheffield) | ||||
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Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield | ||||
Date Deposited: | 26 Apr 2023 09:22 | ||||
Last Modified: | 26 Apr 2023 09:22 | ||||
Status: | Published | ||||
Publisher: | American Chemical Society (ACS) | ||||
Refereed: | Yes | ||||
Identification Number: | https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.2c02939 | ||||
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