Thermal transport of the frustrated spin-chain mineral linarite: Magnetic heat transport and strong spin-phonon scattering

Matthias Gillig, Xiaochen Hong, Piyush Sakrikar +6

The mineral linarite (PbCuSO${}_4$(OH)${}_2$) forms a monoclinic structure where a sequence of Cu(OH)${}_2$ units forms a spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ chain. Competing ferromagnetic nearest-neighb…