Exhibiting rich magnetic behaviour and potentially multiferroic properties, the dugganites, a Te(6+) containing subgroup of the langasite series, are an attractive family of compounds for future study. It was recently shown that Pb-bearing members of the dugganite series undergo distortions away from the P321 symmetry that is characteristic of the langasites. Here, we detail the consequences these distortions have on the magnetism exhibited by Pb3TeCo3V2O14 and Pb3TeCo3P2O14, solving the magnetic structures of both compounds with respect to a new supercell. Using neutron scattering and magnetic susceptibility measurements, we show that small applied magnetic fields can seriously perturb the delicate magnetic states in both of these systems. This is further demonstrated by presenting how doping P(5+) onto the nonmagnetic V(5+) site completely changes the magnetic structure from either of the end series members. Finally, it is shown using inelastic neutron scattering and magnetic susceptibility measurements that Pb3TeCo3V2O14 can be characterized using a model for isosceles trimers, which do not exist in the previously reported P321 subcell.
Polycrystalline Pb3TeCo3V2O14, a structural analogue of the multiferroic Ba3NbFe3Si2O14, was synthesized
and
characterized using X-ray diffraction, magnetic susceptibility, specific
heat, dielectric constant, and neutron diffraction. Magnetic susceptibility,
specific heat capacity measurements, and bond valence analysis confirmed
that the V5+ ion is nonmagnetic, while Co2+ is
in its high spin state (S = 3/2). Two magnetic transitions
were seen at T
N1 = 8.6 K and T
N2 = 6.0 K where the spins first adopt a magnetic structure
with propagation vector k⃗ = (0.752,0,1/2) and reorder into a commensurate structure with
propagation vector k⃗ = (5/6,5/6,1/2). Changes
in the dielectric constant at both magnetic phase transitions suggest
that magnetoelectric coupling exists in Pb3TeCo3V2O14.
The magnetic ground state of the pyrochlore Yb2GaSbO7 has not been established. The persistent spin fluctuations observed by muon spin-relaxation measurements at low temperatures have not been adequately explained for this material using existing theories for quantum magnetism. Here we report on the synthesis and characterisation of Yb2GaSbO7 to revisit the nature of the magnetic ground state. Through DC and AC magnetic susceptibility, heat capacity, and neutron scattering experiments, we observe evidence for a dynamical ground state that makes Yb2GaSbO7 a promising candidate for disorder-induced spin-liquid or spin-singlet behaviour. This state is quite fragile, being tuned to a splayed ferromagnet in a modest magnetic field μ0Hc ~ 1.5 T.
The title compound is prepared from a stoichiometric mixture of PbO, TeO2, MnO, and NH4H2PO4 (Al2O3 crucible, 400 °C for 12 h, 550 °C for 12 h, and 800 °C for 100 h).
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