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Localized Triplons and Site Stuffing in the Quantum Dimer Magnet BiYbGeO$_5$

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2025-12-10 v2 Materials Science

Abstract

Thermodynamic and muon spin-relaxation measurements have recently highlighted BiYbGeO5_5 as a new example of a rare-earth-based quantum dimer magnet with isolated Yb3+^{3+} spin-12\frac{1}{2} dimers. However, direct spectroscopic evidence of the triplet excitations and measurements of the structural disorder are lacking. In this work, polycrystalline BiYbGeO5_5 was synthesized using conventional high-temperature solid-state methods and investigated via high-resolution neutron powder diffraction and inelastic neutron scattering. Diffraction measurements down to 58 mK reveal no signatures of magnetic order and indicate that nearly 20\% of Yb3+^{3+} sites are replaced by non-magnetic Bi3+^{3+}, introducing significant structural disorder. Inelastic neutron scattering shows dispersionless triplon excitations, consistent with localized, non-interacting spin dimers. Fits to the triplet excitation spectrum identify an XXZ-type anisotropic exchange with JXXJ_{XX} = 0.11(2) meV and JZ=0.15(1)J_Z = 0.15(1) meV. These findings establish BiYbGeO5_5 as a structurally disordered but magnetically well-isolated quantum dimer system, providing a model platform for studying the resilience of entangled spin states to site dilution.

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@article{arxiv.2505.22714,
  title  = {Localized Triplons and Site Stuffing in the Quantum Dimer Magnet BiYbGeO$_5$},
  author = {Rachit Kapoor and J. Ramirez Diaz and D. Yahne and V. O. Garlea and G. Hester},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.22714},
  year   = {2025}
}

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6 pages, 5 figures