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Phys. Rev. B 57, 5005–5008 (1998)

Magnetic properties of the coupled ladder system MgV2O5

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P. Millet, C. Satto, and J. Bonvoisin
CEMES, CNRS, 29, rue J. Marvig, 31055 Toulouse Cedex, France

B. Normand
Theoretische Physik, ETH-Hönggerberg, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland

K. Penc
Max Planck Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme, Bayreuther Strasse 40, D-01187 Dresden, Germany

M. Albrecht and F. Mila
Laboratoire de Physique Quantique, Université Paul Sabatier, 118 Route de Narbonne, 31062 Toulouse Cedex, France

Received 2 September 1997; published in the issue dated 1 March 1998

We present magnetic-susceptibility measurements on MgV2O5, a compound in which the vanadium oxide planes have the same topology as in CaV2O5. The most striking property is that there is an energy gap of about 15 K, much smaller than in CaV2O5, where the values reported are of the order of 500 K. We show that this may be understood naturally in terms of the phase diagram of the frustrated coupled ladder system. This analysis leads to the prediction that MgV2O5 should have incommensurate dynamic spin fluctuations.

© 1998 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.57.5005
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevB.57.5005
PACS:
75.10.Jm, 75.40.Cx, 75.50.Ee