The perovskite Ba8CoNb6O24 comprises equilateral effective spin-1/2 Co2+ triangular layers separated by six non-magnetic layers. Susceptibility, specific heat and neutron scattering measurements combined with high-temperature series expansions and spin-wave calculations confirm that Ba8CoNb6O24 is basically a twodimensional (2D) magnet with no detectable spin anisotropy and no long-range magnetic ordering down to 0.06 K. In other words, Ba8CoNb6O24 is very close to be a realization of the paradigmatic spin-1/2 triangular Heisenberg model, which is not expected to exhibit symmetry breaking at finite temperature according to the Mermin and Wagner theorem.
@article{arxiv.1612.04117,
title = {Ba8CoNb6O24: a spin-1/2 triangular-lattice Heisenberg antiferromagnet in the 2D limit},
author = {R. Rawl and L. Ge and H. Agrawal and Y. Kamiya and C. R. Dela Cruz and N. P. Butch and X. F. Sun and M. Lee and E. S. Choi and J. Oitmaa and C. D. Batista and M. Mourigal and H. D. Zhou and J. Ma},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.04117},
year = {2017}
}