Magnetic Microphase Inhomogeneity as a Thermodynamic Precursor of Ground State Phase Separation in Weakly Coupled Spin-$\frac{3}{2}$ Chains

L. Shen, E. Campillo, E. Young +5

$\gamma$-CoV${}_2$O${}_6$ is a quasi one-dimensional spin-$\frac{3}{2}$ magnet that possesses two distinct magnetic orders in the ground state with modulation vectors $k_1$ = (…