Anomalously field-susceptible spin soft-matter emerging in an electric-dipole liquid candidate
Abstract
Mutual interactions in many-body systems bring about a variety of exotic phases, among which liquid-like states failing to order due to frustration are of keen interest. Recently, an organic system with an anisotropic triangular lattice of molecular dimers has been suggested to host a dipole liquid arising from intradimer charge-imbalance instability, possibly offering an unprecedented stage for the spin degrees of freedom. Here we show that an extraordinary unordered(unfrozen) spin state having soft-matter-like spatiotemporal characteristics is substantiated in this system. H NMR spectra and magnetization measurements indicate that gigantic, staggered moments are non-linearly and inhomogeneously induced by magnetic field whereas the moments vanish in the zero-field limit. The analysis of the NMR relaxation rate signifies that the moments fluctuate at a characteristic frequency slowing down to below MHz at low temperatures. The inhomogeneity, local correlation, and slow dynamics indicative of middle-scale dynamical correlation length suggest a novel frustration-driven spin clusterization.
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@article{arxiv.2201.04857,
title = {Anomalously field-susceptible spin soft-matter emerging in an electric-dipole liquid candidate},
author = {Mizuki Urai and Kazuya Miyagawa and Yuta Watanabe and Elena I. Zhilyaeva and Svetlana A. Torunova and Rimma N. Lyubovskaya and Natalia Drichko and Kazushi Kanoda},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.04857},
year = {2022}
}
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13 pages, 11 figures, 1 table