Calculation of the expected zero-field muon relaxation rate in the geometrically frustrated rare earth pyrochlore Gd<sub>2</sub>Sn<sub>2</sub>O<sub>7</sub>antiferromagnet
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Abstract
The magnetic insulator Gd(2)Sn(2)O(7) is one of many geometrically frustrated magnetic materials known to exhibit a nonzero muon spin polarization relaxation rate, λ(T), down to the lowest temperature (T) studied. Such behaviour is typically interpreted as signalling the presence of persistent spin dynamics (PSD) of the host material. In the case of Gd(2)Sn(2)O(7), such PSD comes as a surprise since magnetic specific heat measurements suggest conventional gapped magnons, which would naively lead to an exponentially vanishing λ(T) as T → 0. In contrast to most materials that display PSD, the ordered phase of Gd(2)Sn(2)O(7) is well characterized and both the nature and the magnitude of the interactions have been inferred from the magnetic structure and the temperature dependence of the magnetic specific heat. Based on this understanding, the temperature dependence of the muon spin polarization relaxation through the scattering of spin waves (magnons) is calculated. The result explicitly shows that, despite the unusual extensive number of weakly dispersive (gapped) excitations characterizing Gd(2)Sn(2)O(7), a remnant of the zero modes of the parent frustrated pyrochlore Heisenberg antiferromagnet, the temperature dependence of the calculated λ(T) differs dramatically from the experimental one. Indeed, the calculation conforms to the naive expectation of an exponential collapse of λ(T) at temperatures below ∼ 0.7 K. This result, for the first time, illustrates crisply and quantitatively the paradox that presents itself with the pervasive occurrence of PSD in highly frustrated magnetic systems as evinced by muon spin relaxation measurements.
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