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Ultra spin liquid in $\rm Lu_3Cu_2Sb_3O_{14}$

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2021-09-21 v2 Materials Science

Abstract

We analyze measurements of Cmag/TC_{\rm mag}/T, specific heat CmagC_{\rm mag} divided by temperature TT, of the recently observed ultra spin liquid. The measurements are carried out in magnetic fields on the triangular lattice compound Lu3Cu2Sb3O14\rm Lu_3Cu_2Sb_3O_{14}. We show that the obtained heat capacity Cmag/TC_{\rm mag}/T formed by ultra spin liquid as a function of temperature TT versus magnetic field BB behaves very similar to the electronic specific heat Cel/TC_{el}/T of the heavy fermion (HF) metal YbRh2Si2\rm YbRh_2Si_2 and that of the quantum magnet ZnCu3(OH)6Cl2\rm ZnCu_3(OH)_6Cl_2. We further demonstrate that the spinon effective mass MCmag/TM^*\propto C_{\rm mag}/T exhibits the universal scaling coinciding with that observed in HF metals and in ZnCu3(OH)6Cl2\rm ZnCu_3(OH)_6Cl_2. Based on these observations we conclude that a strongly correlated spin liquid determines the thermodynamic properties of the ultra spin liquid of Lu3Cu2Sb3O14\rm Lu_3Cu_2Sb_3O_{14}.

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@article{arxiv.2105.04943,
  title  = {Ultra spin liquid in $\rm Lu_3Cu_2Sb_3O_{14}$},
  author = {V. R. Shaginyan and A. Z. Msezane and S. A. Artamonov and G. S. Japaridze and Y. S. Leevik},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.04943},
  year   = {2021}
}

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6 pages, 5 figures