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Fanjun Xu

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Dynamical magnetism in the disordered cubic lattice material $\gamma$-${\rm Ba}_{3}{\rm CoNb}_{2}{\rm O}_{9}$

$\gamma$-${\rm Ba}_{3}{\rm CoNb}_{2}{\rm O}_{9}$ realizes a disordered simple-cubic spin-$1/2$ lattice in which Co$^{2+}$ ions randomly occupy one third of the sites, placing the system close to the site-percolation threshold for magnetic order. Specific-heat, susceptibility, neutron spin-echo, and muon spin-rotation measurements reveal a broad thermodynamic crossover, short-range magnetic correlations, and persistent fast spin dynamics down to at least 0.1~K, with no evidence for static order or conventional spin-glass freezing. Monte Carlo simulations yield a broad distribution of orphan spins, finite clusters, and an infinite network. The calculated orphan-spin fraction ($\approx 8.8\%$) agrees well with the weakly correlated spin fraction inferred from magnetization ($\approx 8.2\%$). Exact diagonalization of a diluted $S = 1/2$ Heisenberg model captures the broad magnetic specific-heat anomaly and supports the coexistence of weakly and strongly correlated spin environments. These results support a picture in which spin-$1/2$ quantum fluctuations, together with dilution and proximity to the percolation threshold, can support a disorder-driven dynamical state with short-range correlations in three dimensions, distinct from both classical spin glasses and geometrically frustrated quantum spin liquids.

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Quantitative Determination of Quantum Fluctuations in Clean Magnets I: Neutron Spin Echo

Starting from the magnetic total-moment sum rule of neutron scattering, we derive an explicit connection between ordered-moment reduction and the long-time limit of the intermediate scattering function. We show that this time-domain formulation establishes a direct and experimentally accessible measure of quantum fluctuation strength through neutron spin-echo spectroscopy, with \[P(t\rightarrow\infty)=\frac{I(Q,t\rightarrow\infty)}{I(Q,t=0)}=\frac{\langle \mu \rangle^{2}}{\langle \mu^{2} \rangle}\] This identity links the long-time polarization to the ratio between ordered and total magnetic moments. Linear spin-wave calculations for square and triangular Heisenberg antiferromagnets demonstrate that both quantum spin reduction and geometric frustration suppress the plateau value in quantitative agreement with moment reduction. The resulting framework establishes a direct and model-independent measure of the level of quantum fluctuations in bulk quantum magnets, particularly for polycrystalline samples.

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