Ground state of the organic spin-liquid material EtMe 3Sb[Pd(dmit)2]2

Tetsuaki Itou, Akira Oyamada, Satoru Maegawa, Reizo Kato

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Abstract

The organic Mott insulator EtMe3Sb[Pd(dmit)2] 2 is a 1/2-spin system on a nearly-regular triangular lattice. It does not show classical antiferromagnetic ordering in spite of strong antiferromagnetic exchange interactions J = 220-250 K, and thus it is regarded as a spin liquid material. We have found that (T1T)-1 of this spin liquid state shows a peak at around 1 K and after that (T 1T)-1 decreases on cooling. This is not attributed to slowing down of the spin dynamics because T2-1 does not show any enhancement down to low temperature limit. Therefore, the decrease of (T1T)-1 is attributed to disappearance of spin excitations, suggesting that magnetic excitations acquire an energy gap at least in some portion of q-space. This indicates that the ground state of the present spin-liquid material is not a state with spinon Fermi surface, where magnetic excitations are fully gapless and thus (T1T)-1 does not decrease down to low temperature limit.

Original languageEnglish
Article number012033
JournalJournal of Physics: Conference Series
Volume320
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2011
EventInternational Conference on Frustration in Condensed Matter, ICFCM - Sendai, Japan
Duration: 11 Jan 201114 Jan 2011

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