Valence bond glass on an fcc lattice in the double perovskite Ba2YMoO6

Abstract

We report on the unconventional magnetism in the cubic B-site ordered double perovskite Ba2YMoO6, using AC and DC magnetic susceptibility, heat capacity and muSR. No magnetic order is observed down to 2 K while the Weiss temperature is ~ -160 K. This is ascribed to the geometric frustration in the lattice of edge-sharing tetrahedra with orbitally degenerate Mo5+ s=1/2 spins. Our experimental results point to a gradual freezing of the spins into a disordered pattern of spin-singlets, quenching the orbital degeneracy while leaving the global cubic symmetry unaffected, and providing a rare example of a valence bond glass.

4 pages, 5 figures. Published in Phys. Rev. Lett.

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• Quantum Glassiness
• Ferromagnetism in the Mott insulator Ba2NaOsO6
• The Valence Bond Glass phase
• Effective Hamiltonian and low-lying energy clustering patterns of four-sublattice antiferromagnets

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