Antiferromagnetic Spin Fluctuations and Structural Transition in Cluster Mott Insulator Candidate Nb3Cl8 Revealed by 93Nb- and 35Cl-NMR
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| author | Zhou, Y. Z. Han, X. Luo, J. Wu, D. T. Fang, A. F. Shen, B. Feng, B. J. Shi, Y. G. Yang, J. Zhou, R. |
| author_facet | Zhou, Y. Z. Han, X. Luo, J. Wu, D. T. Fang, A. F. Shen, B. Feng, B. J. Shi, Y. G. Yang, J. Zhou, R. |
| contents | Motivated by recent studies of the cluster Mott insulator candidate compound Nb3Cl8, this study performs 93Nb and 35Cl nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) measurements to investigate the electron correlations. Below the structural transition temperature Ts ~ 97 K, all satellites of the 93Nb NMR spectra split into three distinct peaks, which suggests symmetry lowering due to the structural transition and could be attributed to the change in the Nb-Nb bond-lengths of the Nb3 clusters. The spin-lattice relaxation rate 1/T1 divided by the temperature T, 1/T1T, increases upon cooling to Ts for all Cl sites, whereas only the Knight shift K of Cl located at the center of the Nb3 clusters exhibits a temperature dependence similar to that observed in magnetic susceptibility. These findings collectively demonstrate the existence of strong spin correlations between the Nb atoms in Nb3Cl8, which are closely associated with Mottness. |
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| spellingShingle | Antiferromagnetic Spin Fluctuations and Structural Transition in Cluster Mott Insulator Candidate Nb3Cl8 Revealed by 93Nb- and 35Cl-NMR Zhou, Y. Z. Han, X. Luo, J. Wu, D. T. Fang, A. F. Shen, B. Feng, B. J. Shi, Y. G. Yang, J. Zhou, R. Strongly Correlated Electrons Motivated by recent studies of the cluster Mott insulator candidate compound Nb3Cl8, this study performs 93Nb and 35Cl nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) measurements to investigate the electron correlations. Below the structural transition temperature Ts ~ 97 K, all satellites of the 93Nb NMR spectra split into three distinct peaks, which suggests symmetry lowering due to the structural transition and could be attributed to the change in the Nb-Nb bond-lengths of the Nb3 clusters. The spin-lattice relaxation rate 1/T1 divided by the temperature T, 1/T1T, increases upon cooling to Ts for all Cl sites, whereas only the Knight shift K of Cl located at the center of the Nb3 clusters exhibits a temperature dependence similar to that observed in magnetic susceptibility. These findings collectively demonstrate the existence of strong spin correlations between the Nb atoms in Nb3Cl8, which are closely associated with Mottness. |
| title | Antiferromagnetic Spin Fluctuations and Structural Transition in Cluster Mott Insulator Candidate Nb3Cl8 Revealed by 93Nb- and 35Cl-NMR |
| topic | Strongly Correlated Electrons |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.12903 |