Structural distortions in the spin-gap regime of the quantum antiferromagnet SrCu2(BO3)2

Journal of Solid State Chemistry

Volumn 182, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3275-3281

  Vecchini, C ^a,b   Adamopoulos, O ^a,c   Chapon, L C ^b   Lappas, A ^a   Kageyama, H ^d   Ueda, Y ^e   Zorko, A ^f  

^a INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND LASER   (Greece)

^b RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^f JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Antiferromagnet; Dimer; Frustrated system; Neutron diffraction; Shastry Sutherland; Spin gap; SrCu2(BO3)2; Strongly correlated systems; Two dimensional system

Indexed keywords

ANTIFERROMAGNET; ANTIFERROMAGNETS; SPIN-GAP; STRONGLY CORRELATED SYSTEMS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS;

ANTIFERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; FLUORINE CONTAINING POLYMERS; GROUND STATE; MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; NEUTRON DIFFRACTION; NEUTRONS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SPIN DYNAMICS; THERMAL EXPANSION; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

CRYSTAL SYMMETRY;

EID: 70649093859     PISSN: 00224596     EISSN: 1095726X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jssc.2009.09.017     Document Type: Article

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