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Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 017202 (2007) [4 pages]

Chiral-Like Critical Behavior in the Antiferromagnet Cobalt Glycerolate

F. L. Pratt,1 P. J. Baker,2 S. J. Blundell,2 T. Lancaster,2 M. A. Green,3 and M. Kurmoo4
1ISIS Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Oxfordshire OX11 0QX, United Kingdom
2University of Oxford, Department of Physics, Clarendon Laboratory, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU, United Kingdom
3NIST Center for Neutron Research, 100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899-2330, USA
4Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination Organique, CNRS-UMR7140, Université Louis Pasteur, 67000 Strasbourg, France

Received 9 January 2007; published 3 July 2007

Critical exponents closely matching those of the N=2 chiral universality class have been obtained for the layered magnetic system cobalt glycerolate using muon spin relaxation. This class was originally introduced to represent geometrically frustrated triangular stacked-layer XY magnets with chiral noncollinear spin structures. Since the present magnetic system is a canted XY system without geometrical frustration or chiral degeneracy, the results indicate that the order parameter for canting in this system plays a similar role to the chiral order parameter in the geometrically frustrated systems, strongly suggesting that both types of noncollinear system share the same universality class.

©2007 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.017202
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.017202
PACS: 75.40.Cx; 75.25.+z; 75.40.Gb; 76.75.+i
  • 75.40.Cx
    Static properties of magnetic materials including order parameter, static susceptibility, heat capacities, critical exponents, etc
  • 75.25.+z
    Spin arrangements in magnetically ordered materials including neutron and spin-polarized electron studies, synchrotron-source X-ray scattering, etc
  • 75.40.Gb
    Dynamic properties of magnetic materials including dynamic susceptibility, spin waves, spin diffusion, dynamic scaling, etc
  • 76.75.+i
    Muon spin rotation and relaxation in condensed matter
  • YEAR: 2007
KEYWORDS: antiferromagnetic materials, canted spin arrangements, cobalt compounds, critical exponents, magnetic transitions, muon probes, organic compounds, X-Y model

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