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Order by Quenched Disorder in the Model Triangular Antiferromagnet RbFe(MoO_{4})_{2}.
Smirnov, A I; Soldatov, T A; Petrenko, O A; Takata, A; Kida, T; Hagiwara, M; Shapiro, A Ya; Zhitomirsky, M E.
Afiliação
  • Smirnov AI; P. L. Kapitza Institute for Physical Problems, RAS, 119334 Moscow, Russia.
  • Soldatov TA; P. L. Kapitza Institute for Physical Problems, RAS, 119334 Moscow, Russia.
  • Petrenko OA; Moscow Institute for Physics and Technology, 141700 Dolgoprudny, Russia.
  • Takata A; Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom.
  • Kida T; Center for Advanced High Magnetic Field Science (AHMF), Osaka University, Osaka 560-0043, Japan.
  • Hagiwara M; Center for Advanced High Magnetic Field Science (AHMF), Osaka University, Osaka 560-0043, Japan.
  • Shapiro AY; Center for Advanced High Magnetic Field Science (AHMF), Osaka University, Osaka 560-0043, Japan.
  • Zhitomirsky ME; A. V. Shubnikov Institute for Crystallography RAS, 119333 Moscow, Russia.
Phys Rev Lett ; 119(4): 047204, 2017 Jul 28.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29341764
We observe a disappearance of the 1/3 magnetization plateau and a striking change of the magnetic configuration under a moderate doping of the model triangular antiferromagnet RbFe(MoO_{4})_{2}. The reason is an effective lifting of degeneracy of mean-field ground states by a random potential of impurities, which compensates, in the low-temperature limit, the fluctuation contribution to free energy. These results provide a direct experimental confirmation of the fluctuation origin of the ground state in a real frustrated system. The change of the ground state to a least collinear configuration reveals an effective positive biquadratic exchange provided by the structural disorder. On heating, doped samples regain the structure of a pure compound, thus allowing for an investigation of the remarkable competition between thermal and structural disorder.

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