Abstract
The magnetic structure of a geometrically frustrated system Co 2Cl(OH) 3 is determined by comparing the observed proton NMR spectrum with numerical calculations based on various magnetic models. The best fit is obtained with a model that the magnetic moments of Co 2+ ions in the triangular plane are parallel to the principal axis of local crystal field and those of Co 2+ ions in the kagome lattice plane are randomly disordered in the a– b plane, which nearly bisects the angle between the principal axis of the local field and a line pointing towards the body center of the tetrahedron. The coexistence of the ferromagnetic order in the triangular plane and the random disorder in the kagome plane is consistent with the results of measurements by Zheng et al. However, the magnetic moments of Co 2+ ions are not directed towards the body center of the tetrahedron as characteristic in the “spin ice” magnetic structure. Furthermore, the Co 2+ ions in the triangular plane have a smaller magnitude of magnetic moment than those in the kagome plane. Thus, our result suggests that the transition metal compound Co 2Cl(OH) 3 is different from the “spin ice” in magnetic structure, although it is similar to rare-earth pyrochlores in crystal structure.
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