In this thesis, I will present the YCu3(OH)6Cl3 compound, its structure and magnetic properties.
This compound is a realization of the kagome spin lattices.
In such a lattice spins are geometrically frustrated, which means that geometry of the lattice does not allow all of spin-spin interactions to be minimized instantaneously.
The goal of this thesis was to determine the hyperfine coupling tensor between the 35Cl nuclei and the electrons on Cu2+ ions and to determine how local magnetic susceptibility changes with temperature.
I measured NMR spectra of 35Cl nuclei at temperatures between 8 K and 291 K.
The chlorine nuclei occupy two different sites in the crystal lattice that are not equivalent.
Therefore, first I had to determine which peeks in the spectrum belong to which site.
From the distance between the satellite transitions I was able to determine the temperature dependence of the quadrupole frequency.
In programming languages Python and C I programmed spectrum simulations.
With the Monte Carlo methode I fitted the simulated spectrum to measurements and determined the ratio between the main components of the hyperfine coupling tensor as well as determine temperature dependence of the magnetic susceptibility tensor.
I calculated and showed the Knight shift and calculated hyperfine coupling tensor.
With the help of the hyperfine coupling tensor I calculated values of the local magnetic susceptibility as a function of temperature and compared them with macroscopic measurements.
I found a large discrepancy between the local and bulk values of the magnetic susceptibility at low temperatures and a lorge anisotropy of the local magnetic susceptibility, the latter being a fingerprint of sizable magnetic anisotropy.
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