Determining the zero-field magnetic structure of antlerite
The spin-1/2 quantum magnet Cu3(OH)4SO4, isostructural to the natural mineral antlerite, is a one-dimensional compound with two nonequivalent copper sites, arranged into triple chains. While it was initially thought that one of the Cu spins shows idle-spin behavior, more recent experiments uncovered a complex magnetic phase diagram with multiple field-induced magnetic phases and various metamagnetic transitions. This motivated us to study this compound in more detail as a strongly frustrated low-dimensional quantum-spin magnetic system. In our group, we could synthesize large amounts of antlerite in the form of tiny single crystals, which we plan to powderize for the neutron diffraction experiment in order to determine the magnetic structure of the four different zero-field magnetic phases that were so far reported: alpha1, alpha2, I1, and I2.
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Dmytro Inosov; KULBAKOV Anton; Darren C. Peets and PUENTE ORENCH Ines. (2020). Determining the zero-field magnetic structure of antlerite. Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) doi:10.5291/ILL-DATA.5-31-2734
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