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Pyrochlore lattice without/with distortions (left/right panels). As the result of the distortions, ferromagnetic coupling (blue line) and anti-ferromagnetic coupling (red line) emerge. The ferromagnetic/anti-ferromagnetic couplings tend to make spins parallel/anti-parallel. Then, spins of morybdenums placed on the corners of the tetrahedrons exhibit glassy, disordered configurations.
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