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Three Dimensional Spin Web: A New Magnetic Lattice in Cu3TeO6

M. Herak, H. Berger, M. Prester, M. Miljak, I. Zivkovic, O. Milat, D. Drobac, S. Popovic, O. Zaharko

cond-mat.str-elarXiv:cond-mat/0507684

Abstract

We report on magnetic properties of cubic compound Cu3TeO6 studied by ac and dc susceptibility and neutron powder diffraction for the first time. A novel magnetic lattice, three dimensional spin web, composed of almost planar regular hexagons of Cu2+, S =1/2 spins, defines the properties of Cu3TeO6. The behavior of the magnetic susceptibility in the paramagnetic state at approximately 170 K is suggestive for a competition between local anisotropies of Cu2+ hexagons. The resulting frustration is weaker than the antiferromagnetic nearest-neighbor interaction which leads to a collinear (or slightly canted) spin arrangement (k=0,0,0) and formation of magnetic domains below TN=61 K.

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