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    Magnetic structure and spin dynamics of the quasi-one-dimensional spin-chain antiferromagnet BaCo2V2O8

    Yu Kawasaki1,2, Jorge L. Gavilano1, Lukas Keller1, Jürg Schefer1, Niels Bech Christensen1,3, Alex Amato4, Takashi Ohno2, Yutaka Kishimoto2, Zhangzhen He5,6 et al.

    Yutaka Ueda5 and Mitsuru Itoh7

    • 1Laboratory for Neutron Scattering PSI, CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
    • 2Institute of Technology and Science, The University of Tokushima, Tokushima 770-8506, Japan
    • 3Materials Research Division, Risø National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy, Technical University of Denmark, Frederiksborgvej 399 P.O. Box 49 DK-4000 Roskilde
    • 4Laboratory for muon Spin Spectroscopy, ETH Zürich and PSI, CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
    • 5Institute for Solid State Physics, Univ. of Tokyo, Chiba, Japan
    • 6Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, P. R. China
    • 7Materials and Structures Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan

    Phys. Rev. B 83, 064421 – Published 25 February, 2011

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.83.064421

    Abstract

    We report a neutron diffraction and muon spin relaxation μSR study of static and dynamical magnetic properties of BaCo2V2O8, a quasi-one-dimensional spin-chain system. A proposed model for the antiferromagnetic structure includes: a propagation vector k⃗AF=(0,0,1), independent of external magnetic fields for fields below a critical value Hc(T). The ordered moments of 2.18 μB per Co ion are aligned along the crystallographic c axis. Within the screw chains, along the c axis, the moments are arranged antiferromagnetically. In the basal planes the spins are arranged ferromagnetically (forming zigzag paths) along one of the axes and antiferromagnetically along the other. The temperature dependence of the sublattice magnetization is consistent with the expectations of the three-dimensional (3D) Ising model. A similar behavior is observed for the internal static fields at different muon stopping sites. Muon time spectra measured at weak longitudinal fields and temperatures much higher than TN can be well described using a single muon site with an exponential muon spin relaxation that gradually changes into an stretched exponential on approaching TN. The temperature-induced changes of the relaxation suggest that the Co fluctuations dramatically slow down and the system becomes less homogeneous as it approaches the antiferromagnetic state.

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