Raman scattering signatures of Kitaev spin liquids in A2IrO3 iridates with A=Na or Li

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 113, Issue 18, 2014, Pages

  Knolle, J ^a   Chern, Gia Wei ^b   Kovrizhin, D L ^c,d   Moessner, R ^a   Perkins, N B ^e,f  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK KOMPLEXER SYSTEME   (Germany)

^b CENTER FOR NONLINEAR STUDIES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d KURCHATOV INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^e University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^f University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY OF STATE; HEISENBERG MODELS; INTEGRABILITY; QUANTUM SPIN LIQUID; RAMAN RESPONSE; RESPONSE FUNCTIONS; SCATTERING SIGNATURES; SHARP FEATURES;

LIQUIDS;

EID: 84908428685     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.187201     Document Type: Article

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