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Local lattice disorder in the geometrically frustrated spin-glass pyrochlore Y2Mo2O7

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DOIResolve DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.62.R755
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The geometrically frustrated spin-glass Y2Mo2O7 has been widely considered to be crystallographically ordered with a unique nearest-neighbor magnetic exchange interaction, J. To test this assertion, we present x-ray-absorption fine-structure results for the Mo and Y K edges as a function of temperature and compare them to results from a well-ordered pyrochlore, Tl2Mn2O7. We find that the Mo-Mo pair distances are significantly disordered at approximately right angles to the Y-Mo pairs. These results strongly suggest that lattice disorder nucleates the spin-glass phase in this material.
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  • Physical Review. B, Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 62, no. 2 (1 July 2000): R755–R758.
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