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SUBMITTER: Paddison JA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5187434 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Paddison Joseph A M JA Ong Harapan S HS Hamp James O JO Mukherjee Paromita P Bai Xiaojian X Tucker Matthew G MG Butch Nicholas P NP Castelnovo Claudio C Mourigal Martin M Dutton S E SE
Nature communications 20161220
The Ising model-in which degrees of freedom (spins) are binary valued (up/down)-is a cornerstone of statistical physics that shows rich behaviour when spins occupy a highly frustrated lattice such as kagome. Here we show that the layered Ising magnet Dy<sub>3</sub>Mg<sub>2</sub>Sb<sub>3</sub>O<sub>14</sub> hosts an emergent order predicted theoretically for individual kagome layers of in-plane Ising spins. Neutron-scattering and bulk thermomagnetic measurements reveal a phase transition at ∼0.3 ...[more]