Quest for frustration driven distortion in Y2(Mo2)O(7).
We investigated the nature of the freezing in the geometrically frustrated Heisenberg spin glass Y2(Mo2)O(7) by measuring the temperature dependence of the static internal magnetic field distribution above the spin-glass temperature, Tg, using the muon spin relaxation technique. The evolution of the field distribution cannot be explained by changes in the spin susceptibility alone and suggests a lattice deformation. This possibility is addressed by numerical simulations of the Heisenberg Hamiltonian with magnetoelastic coupling at T > 0.
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Eva
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Physics Department, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel.
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Oren
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Keren
Amit
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Gardner
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