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Competition between dynamic and structural disorder in a doped triangular antiferromagnet RbFe(MoO4)2

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Magnetisation measurements and electron spin resonance (ESR) spectra of a doped quasi two dimensional (2D) antiferromagnet on a triangular lattice Rb1-xKxFe(MoO4)(2) reveal a crucial change of the ground state spin configuration and a disappearance of a characteristic 1/3-magnetisation plateau at x = 0.15. According to theory for triangular antiferromagnets with a weak random modulation of the exchange bonds, this is a result of the competition between the structural and dynamic disorders. The dynamic zero-point or thermal fluctuations are known to lift the degeneracy of the mean field ground state of a triangular antiferromagnet and cause the spin configuration to be the most collinear, while the static disorder provides another selection of the ground state, with the least collinear structure. Low-level doping (x <= 0.15) was found to decrease the Neel temperature and saturation field by only few percent, while the magnetisation plateau disappears completely and the spin configuration is drastically changed. ESR spectra confirm an impurity-induced change of the so-called Y-type structure to an inverted Y-structure for x = 0.15. For x = 0.075 the intermediate regime with the decrease of width and weakening of flattening of 1/3-plateau was found.

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hal-02095543 , version 1 (10-04-2019)

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A Smirnov, A Soldatov, Anne Petrenko, A Takata, T. Kida, et al.. Competition between dynamic and structural disorder in a doped triangular antiferromagnet RbFe(MoO4)2. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2018, 28th International Conference on Low Temperature Physics (LT28), 969, pp.012115. ⟨10.1088/1742-6596/969/1/012115⟩. ⟨hal-02095543⟩
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