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Gapped and gapless short range ordered magnetic states with wavevectors in the pyrochlore magnet TbTiO
Recent low temperature heat capacity (C) measurements on polycrystalline
samples of the pyrochlore antiferromagnet TbTiO
have shown a strong sensitivity to the precise Tb concentration , with a
large anomaly exhibited for at K and no such
anomaly and corresponding phase transition for . We have grown single
crystal samples of TbTiO, with approximate
composition , and , where the single
crystal exhibits a large C anomaly at =0.45 K, but neither the
nor the single crystals display any such anomaly. We
present new time-of-flight neutron scattering measurements on the
and the samples which show strong
quasi-Bragg peaks at low
temperatures characteristic of short range antiferromagnetic spin ice (AFSI)
order at zero magnetic field but only under field-cooled conditions, as was
previously observed in our single crystal. These results show that
the strong quasi-Bragg peaks
and gapped AFSI state at low temperatures under field cooled conditions are
robust features of TbTiO, and are not correlated with the presence
or absence of the C anomaly and phase transition at low temperatures.
Further, these results show that the ordered state giving rise to the C
anomaly is confined to for
TbTiO, and is not obviously connected with
conventional order of magnetic dipole degrees of freedom.Comment: 7 pages, 3 figure
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