The magnetic properties of single-crystalline atacamite, Cu2Cl(OH)3
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2018-05-01
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Elsevier
Abstract
We present susceptibility measurements on the natural mineral atacamite, Cu2Cl(OH)3, for the first time along the three crystallographic axes. Further, we have carried out an elastic neutron diffraction experiment which shows that the symmetry of the magnetic ground state of atacamite is described by a propagation vector q=(1/2 0 1/2). © 2017 Elsevier B.V.
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We thank the HZB for the allocation of neutron radiation beamtime and thankfully acknowledge the financial support from HZB. Our work has been supported by the DFG under Grants No. WO1532/3-2 and No. SU229/9-2 and SFB 1143. We thank G. Paskalis for supplying us with both atacamite crystals and thank Ch. Blum, K. Ivshin and O. Kataeva for orienting the crystals.
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Copper, Chlorine, Magnetic properties, Neutron diffraction, Crystallography, Minerals, Ground states, Temperature range, Bragg reflection
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Heinze, L., Beltran-Rodriguez, R., Bastien, G., Wolter, A. U. B., Reehuis, M., Hoffmann, J. U., Rule, K. C., & Süllow, S. (2018). The magnetic properties of single-crystalline atacamite, Cu2Cl(OH)3. Paper presented to the International Conference on Strongly Correlated Electron Systems 2017 (SCES2017), Prague, 17-21 July 2017. In Physica B: Condensed Matter, 536, 377-378. doi:10.1016/j.physb.2017.09.073