The magnetic groundstate of an experimental $S=1/2$ kagomé antiferromagnet

Abstract

We have carried out neutron powder-diffraction measurements on zinc paratacamite Zn${}_x$Cu${}_{4-x}$(OH)${}_6$Cl${}_2$ with $x=1$, and studied the heat capacity in fields of up to 9 T for $0.5\le x\le 1$. The $x=1$ phase has recently been shown to be an outstanding realisation of the $S=1/2$ kagomé antiferromagnet. A weak mixing of Cu${}^{2+}$/Zn${}^{2+}$ between the Cu and the Zn sites, corresponding to $\sim 9$% of all Cu${}^{2+}$ for $x=1$, is observed using neutron diffraction. This ``antisite disorder'' provides a consistent explanation of the field dependence of the heat capacity for $0.8\le x\le 1$. From comparison of the derived Cu${}^{2+}$ occupancy of the Zn sites for $x=\mathrm{0.8...1}$ with the magnetic susceptibility, we argue that for $x=\mathrm{0.8...1}$ zinc paratacamite is a spin liquid without a spin gap. The presence of unpaired but nevertheless strongly interacting spins gives rise to a macroscopically degenerate ground state manifold, with increasingly glassy dynamics as $x$ is lowered.

arXiv commentThorough revision of manuscript. Added 1 figure. Manuscript submitted to Physics Review Letters

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