Tuesday, February 7, 2012

1106.5785 (Eric C. Andrade et al.)

Defect-induced spin-glass magnetism in incommensurate spin-gap magnets    [PDF]

Eric C. Andrade, Matthias Vojta
We study magnetic order induced by non-magnetic impurities in quantum
paramagnets with incommensurate host spin correlations. In contrast to the
well-studied commensurate case where the defect-induced magnetism is spatially
disordered but non-frustrated, the present problem combines strong disorder
with frustration and, consequently, leads to spin-glass order. We discuss the
crossover from strong randomness in the dilute limit to more conventional glass
behavior at larger doping, and numerically characterize the robust short-range
order inherent to the spin-glass phase. We relate our findings to magnetic
order in both BiCu2PO6 and YBa2Cu3O6.6 induced by Zn substitution.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1106.5785

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