Gapless quantum spin liquid in an organic spin-1/2 triangular-lattice κ- H3 (Cat-EDT-TTF)2

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 112, Issue 17, 2014, Pages

  Isono, Takayuki ^a   Kamo, Hiromichi ^a   Ueda, Akira ^a   Takahashi, Kazuyuki ^b   Kimata, Motoi ^a   Tajima, Hiroyuki ^a   Tsuchiya, Satoshi ^c   Terashima, Taichi ^c   Uji, Shinya ^c   Mori, Hatsumi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC PHYSICS; PHYSICS;

ANTIFERROMAGNETIC EXCHANGE COUPLING; ANTIFERROMAGNETIC ORDERINGS; PAULI PARAMAGNETISM; POSSIBLE MECHANISMS; QUANTUM SPIN LIQUID; SPIN FRUSTRATIONS; TORQUE MAGNETOMETRY; TRIANGULAR-LATTICE;

LIQUIDS;

EID: 84899764830     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.177201     Document Type: Article

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