Abstract
We employ thermodynamic and electron spin resonance (ESR) techniques to elucidate the effects of quenched disorder on a ground state of s= 5 / 2 frustrated cubic antiferromagnet La 3 Sb 3 Mn 2 O 14 . We observe the development of multiple ESR lines for temperatures below 80 K. Concomitantly, the ESR linewidth exhibits a power-law increase, accompanied by an intriguing shift in resonance fields. These observations point to the occurrence of inhomogeneous magnetism. Additionally, ac magnetic susceptibility and magnetization data obey a scaling relation of χ′(H, T) and M(H, T) in μBH/ kBT with the scaling exponent α= 0.53 . This scaling behavior alludes to the formation of a random-singlet-like state and the presence of abundant low-lying excitations. Our results highlight the concerted interplay of strong disorder and frustration to stabilize a putative random-singlet state even in classical and high-dimensional spin systems.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 151-157 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Journal of the Korean Physical Society |
| Volume | 84 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jan 2024 |
Keywords
- Frustration
- Quantum magnet
- Quantum scalings
- Random singlet