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Title	Suppressed-moment 2-k order in the canonical frustrated antiferromagnet Gd2Ti2O7
Contributors	JAM Paddison (STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab., Cambridge Univ., Oxford Univ., and Oak Ridge National Lab.), G Ehlers, AB Cairns, JS Gardner, OA Petrenko, NP Butch, DD Khalyavin (STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab.), P Manuel (STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab.), HE Fischer, H Zhou, AL Goodwin, JR Stewart (STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab.)
Abstract	In partially ordered magnets, order and disorder coexist in the same magnetic phase, distinct from both spin liquids and spin solids. Here, we determine the nature of partial magnetic ordering in the canonical frustrated antiferromagnet Gd2Ti2O7, in which Gd3+ spins occupy a pyrochlore lattice. Using single-crystal neutron-diffraction measurements in applied magnetic field, magnetic symmetry analysis, inelastic neutron-scattering measurements, and spin-wave modeling, we show that its low-temperature magnetic structure involves two propagation vectors (2-k structure) with suppressed ordered magnetic moments and enhanced spin-wave fluctuations. Our experimental results are consistent with theoretical predictions of thermal fluctuation-driven order in Gd2Ti2O7, and reveal that inelastic neutron-scattering measurements on powder samples can solve the longstanding problem of distinguishing single-k and multi-k magnetic structures.
Organisation	ISIS , ISIS-HRPD , ISIS-WISH , STFC
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Related Research Object(s):	10.5286/ISIS.E.44927943
Licence Information:	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Language	English (EN)

Type	Details	URI(s)	Local file(s)	Year
Journal Article	npj Quantum Mater 6, no. 1 (2021): 99.	doi:10.1038/s41535-021-00391-w		2021