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We investigate the low temperature magnetic properties of a $S=\frac{5}{2}$ Heisenberg kagom\'e antiferromagnet, the layered monodiphosphate Li$_9$Fe$_3$(P$_2$O$_7$)$_3$(PO$_4$)$_2$, using magnetization measurements and $^{31}$P nuclear…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-10-08 E. Kermarrec , R. Kumar , G. Bernard , R. Hénaff , P. Mendels , F. Bert , P. L. Paulose , B. K. Hazra , B. Koteswararao

Antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model on the triangular lattice is perhaps the best known example of frustrated magnets, but it orders at low temperatures. Recent density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) calculations find that next nearest…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-05-08 Ahmet Keles , Erhai Zhao

We introduce the rare-earth delafossite compound TlYbSe$_2$ -- extending the search for quantum spin liquids in frustrated triangular lattice magnets. While the DC magnetisation suggests magnetic exchange interactions in the order of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-16 Bishnu P. Belbase , Arjun Unnikrishnan , Shi Feng , Eun Sang Choi , Johannes Knolle , Arnab Banerjee

Pursuing fractionalized particles that do not bear properties of conventional measurable objects, exemplified by bare particles in the vacuum such as electrons and elementary excitations such as magnons, is a challenge in physics. Here we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-08-17 Yusuke Nomura , Masatoshi Imada

Trillium lattices, where magnetic ions form a three-dimensional chiral network of corner-sharing equilateral triangular motifs, offer a prominent platform to explore exotic quantum states. In this work, we report ground-state properties of…

We report on high-field electron spin resonance (ESR) studies of magnetic excitations in the spin-1/2 triangular-lattice antiferromagnet Cs$_2$CuBr$_4$. Frequency-field diagrams of ESR excitations are measured for different orientations of…

Magnetic order on the spatially anisotropic triangular lattice of $\alpha$-NaMnO$_2$ is studied via neutron diffraction measurements. The transition into a commensurate, collinear antiferromagnetic ground state with $\mathbf{k}=(0.5, 0.5,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-11-14 Rebecca L. Dally , Robin Chisnell , Leland Harriger , Yaohua Liu , Jeffrey W. Lynn , Stephen D. Wilson

Antiferromagnetically coupled S=1/2 spins on an isotropic triangular lattice is the paradigm of frustrated quantum magnetism, but structurally ideal realizations are rare. Here we investigate NaYbO$_2$, which hosts an ideal triangular…

We investigated the rare-earth triangular-lattice antiferromagnet NdMgAl$_{11}$O$_{19}$ using single-crystal magnetization (1.8~K $\leq T \leq$ 300~K, $\mu_0 H \leq 7$~T) and specific-heat measurements down to 45~mK. The dc susceptibility…

Rare-earth delafossites were recently proposed as promising candidates for the realization of an effective $S$=1/2 quantum spin liquid (QSL) on the triangular lattice. In contrast to the most actively studied triangular-lattice…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-01-08 R. Sarkar , Ph. Schlender , V. Grinenko , E. Haeussler , Peter J. Baker , Th. Doert , H. -H. Klauss

A complicating factor in the realization and observation of quantum spin liquids in materials is the ubiquitous presence of other degrees of freedom, in particular lattice distortion modes (phonons). These provide additional routes for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-08-20 Urban F. P. Seifert , Josef Willsher , Markus Drescher , Frank Pollmann , Johannes Knolle

The nature of the magnetic ground state of highly frustrated systems remained puzzling to this day. Here, we have performed multifrequency electron spin resonance (ESR) measurements on a putative quantum spin liquid compound…

We successfully synthesize single crystals of the verdazyl radical $\alpha$-2,3,5-Cl$_3$-V. $Ab$ $initio$ molecular orbital calculations indicate that the two dominant antiferromagnetic interactions, $J_{\rm{1}}$ and $J_{\rm{2}}$ ($\alpha…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-06-26 Hironori Yamaguchi , Yusuke Tamekuni , Yoshiki Iwasaki , Rei Otsuka , Yuko Hosokoshi , Takanori Kida , Masayuki Hagiwara

Spin liquids are exotic phases of quantum matter challenging Landau's paradigm of symmetry-breaking phase transitions. Despite strong exchange interactions, spins do not order or freeze down to zero temperature. While well-established for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-04-22 P. Khuntia , M. Velazquez , Q. Barthélemy , F. Bert , E. Kermarrec , A. Legros , B. Bernu , L. Messio , A. Zorko , P. Mendels

We synthesized a quasi-two-dimensional distorted triangular lattice antiferromagnet Ca$_3$CoNb$_2$O$_9$, in which the effective spin of Co$^{2+}$ is 1/2 at low temperatures, whose magnetic properties were studied by dc susceptibility and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-12-25 J. Dai , P. Zhou , P. S. Wang , F. Pang , T J. Munsie , G. M. Luke , J. S. Zhang , Weiqiang Yu

YbZn$_2$GaO$_5$ is a promising candidate for realizing a quantum spin liquid (QSL) state, particularly owing to its lack of significant site disorder. Pulsed-field magnetometry at 0.5 K shows magnetization saturating near 15 T, with a…

A comprehensive $^{31}$P nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) study, combined with thermodynamic measurements and first-principle band-structure calculations, has been conducted to explore the ground state of the $S = 5/2$ double trillium…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-08 Sebin J. Sebastian , Q. -P. Ding , A. A. Tsirlin , R. Nath , Y. Furukawa

Recent work has shown that the triangular lattice spin-$1/2$ $J_1$-$J_2$ Heisenberg and XXZ antiferromagnets may exhibit coplanar or supersolid orders proximate to a gapless Dirac spin liquid phase. We explore a distinct…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-06-05 Anjishnu Bose , Kathleen Hart , Ruairidh Sutcliffe , Arun Paramekanti

Rare earth triangular lattice materials have been proposed as a good platform for the investigation of frustrated magnetic ground states. KErSe$_2$ with the delafossite structure, contains perfect two-dimensional Er$^{3+}$ triangular layers…

We report variational Monte Carlo calculations for the spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ Heisenberg model on the kagome lattice in the presence of both nearest-neighbor $J_1$ and next-nearest-neighbor $J_2$ antiferromagnetic superexchange couplings. Our…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-01-13 Yasir Iqbal , Didier Poilblanc , Federico Becca