Magnetism and field-cycling induced domain walls in staircase Kagome antiferromagnet PbCu3TeO7 revealed by 125 Te NMR

2015 
We report $^{125}$Te nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) studies on single crystals of staircase Kagom\'{e} antiferromagnet PbCu$_3$TeO$_7$ ($T_{N1}\approx$ 36 K). The Knight shifts give a large hyperfine coupling constant $^{125}A_{hf}$= -67 kOe/$\mu_{B}$, implying a strong interlayer coupling bridging the neighboring Kagom\'{e} layers. The ordered static moment is about 0.4 $\mu_{B}$/Cu,indicating moderate magnetic frustration in the system. At $T$= 2 K, the broad zero-field NMR spectrum and the rf enhancement suggest that the magnetic structure is not a simple collinear antiferromagnetic type. We also find a second type of zero-field NMR signal, which is only seen after a field-cycling process. The signal is identified as domain wall contributions created by field cycling in frustrated antiferromagnets.
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