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Singlet Ground State and Magnetization Plateaus in Ba3Mn2O8

M. Uchida, H. Tanaka, M. Bartashevich, T. Goto

cond-mat.str-elarXiv:cond-mat/0102026

Abstract

Magnetic susceptibility and the magnetization process have been measured in polycrystal. In this compound, the magnetic manganese ion exists as Mn5+ in a tetrahedral environment, and thus the magnetic interaction can be described by an S=1 Heisenberg model. The ground state was found to be a spin singlet with an excitation gap Δ/k B=11.2 K. Magnetization plateaus were observed at zero and at half of the saturation magnetization. These results indicate that the present system can be represented by a coupled antiferromagnetic dimer model.

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