Magnetic field induced quantum spin liquid in the two coupled trillium lattices of K$_2$Ni$_2$(SO$_4$)$_3$
| Autor: | Ivica, Živković, Virgile, Favre, Catalina, Salazar Mejia, Harald O, Jeschke, Arnaud, Magrez, Bhupen, Dabholkar, Vincent, Noculak, Rafael S, Freitas, Minki, Jeong, Nagabhushan G, Hegde, Luc, Testa, Peter, Babkevich, Yixi, Su, Pascal, Manuel, Hubertus, Luetkens, Christopher, Baines, Peter J, Baker, Jochen, Wosnitza, Oksana, Zaharko, Yasir, Iqbal, Johannes, Reuther, Henrik M, Rønnow |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Condensed Matter - Materials Science
500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::530 Physik::539 Moderne Physik Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el) fluctuations Magnetism Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci) FOS: Physical sciences transition Quantum spin liquid Neutron diffraction Specific heat measurements Condensed Matter - Strongly Correlated Electrons Muon spin resonance Time-of-flight neutron spectroscopy Magnetization measurements ddc:530 Condensed Matter::Strongly Correlated Electrons |
| Zdroj: | Physical review letters 127(15), 157204 (2021). doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.157204 |
| Popis: | Quantum spin liquids are exotic states of matter which form when strongly frustrated magnetic interactions induce a highly entangled quantum paramagnet far below the energy scale of the magnetic interactions. Three-dimensional cases are especially challenging due to the significant reduction of the influence of quantum fluctuations. Here, we report the magnetic characterization of {\kni} forming a three dimensional network of Ni$^{2+}$ spins. Using density functional theory calculations we show that this network consists of two interconnected spin-1 trillium lattices. In the absence of a magnetic field, magnetization, specific heat, neutron scattering and muon spin relaxation experiments demonstrate a highly correlated and dynamic state, coexisting with a peculiar, very small static component exhibiting a strongly renormalized moment. A magnetic field $B \gtrsim 4$ T diminishes the ordered component and drives the system in a pure quantum spin liquid state. This shows that a system of interconnected $S=1$ trillium lattices exhibit a significantly elevated level of geometrical frustration. accepted in PRL |
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