Spin-1/2 Kagome Like Lattice in Volborthite Cu3V2O7(OH)2-H2O

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8 November 2001

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

Abstract

A novel cuprate Volborthite, Cu3V2O7(OH)2-2H2O, containing an S-1/2 (Cu 2+ spin) kagome-like lattice is studied by magnetic susceptibility, specific heat, and 51 V NMR measurements. Signs for neither long-range order nor spin-gapped singlet ground states are detected down to 1.8 K, in spite of large antiferromagnetic couplings of ~100 K between Cu spins forming a two-dimensional kagome-like network. It is suggested that Volborthite represents a system close to a quantum critical point between classical long-range ordered and quantum disordered phases.

Keywords

KAGOME LIKE LATTICE
ANTIFERROMAGNETIC
NMR MEASUREMENTS
ORDER NOR SPIN
CRITICAL POINT
LIKE LATTICE
VOLBORTHITE
CU3V2O7

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Version 1, 2001-11-08, ArXiv
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Published version: Journal of the Physics Society Japan, 70 (11), 3377.

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