Bulletin of the American Physical Society
APS March Meeting 2022
Volume 67, Number 3
Monday–Friday, March 14–18, 2022; Chicago
Session Q51: Quantum Spin Liquid III
3:00 PM–5:48 PM,
Wednesday, March 16, 2022
Room: McCormick Place W-474B
Sponsoring
Units:
GMAG DCMP
Chair: Shangshun Zhang, University of Minnesota
Abstract: Q51.00003 : Low-temperature quantum magnetism of the frustrated magnet LiYbSe2*
3:24 PM–3:36 PM
Presenter:
Olivia Vilella
(Georgia Institute of Technology)
Author:
Olivia Vilella
(Georgia Institute of Technology)
Yb3+ is a good source of anisotropic effective spin-1/2 moments resulting from crystal field splitting and spin-orbit coupling. Many triangular-lattice Yb3+ based systems have recently been discovered and studied in an attempt to remove the intrinsic disorder inherent to the first material of that class, YbMgGaO4. This includes compounds such as NaYbO2 and KYbS2. Here, we report on LiYbSe2, a Yb3+ compound that crystalizes in the pyrochlore structure. The magnetic susceptibility displays a Curie-Weiss behavior at low temperatures with a negative Weiss constant, indicating that LiYbSe2 is an antiferromagnet. Our heat capacity measurements down to 70 mK at several magnetic fields up to 14 T show evident magnetic fluctuations below 10 K. A peak is visible from 0.5 T onwards, suggesting the modification of the low-energy magnetic spectral weight by the magnetic field. This 0 T response is the hallmark of gapless correlated magnetic fluctuations, but the entropy change does not quite reach Rln2 expected for fully developed correlations of Seff = 1/2 moments. It indicates that (1) no higher energy crystal-field level participates in the low-temperature magnetism and that (2) a missing entropy is possible in this system.
*The work at Rutgers was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences under award DE-SC0022156. The work at Georgia Tech was supported by the National Science Foundation through Grant No. NSF-DMR- 1750186.
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