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arxiv: cond-mat/0603434 · v1 · submitted 2006-03-16 · ❄️ cond-mat.str-el

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Direct evidence for a dynamical ground state in the highly frustrated Tb₂Sn₂O₇ pyrochlore

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MuSR experiments have been performed on powder sample of the "ordered spin ice" Tb$_2$Sn$_2$O$_7$ pyrochlore compound. At base temperature (T=35mK) the muon relaxation is found to be of dynamical nature which demonstrates that strong fluctuations persist below the ferromagnetic transition (T_C=0.87K). Hints of long range order appear as oscillations of the muon polarization when an external field is applied and also as a hysteretic behavior below T_C. We propose a dynamical and strongly correlated scenario where dynamics results from fluctuation of large spin clusters with the "ordered spin ice" structure.

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