Strongly frustrated triangular spin lattice emerging from triplet dimer formation in honeycomb Li2IrO3

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Nishimoto, Satoshi ^a   Katukuri, Vamshi M ^a   Yushankhai, Viktor ^b,c   Stoll, Hermann ^d   Rößler, Ulrich K ^a   Hozoi, Liviu ^a   Rousochatzakis, Ioannis ^a,c   Van Den Brink, Jeroen ^a,e  

^a IFW DRESDEN   (Germany)

^b JOINT INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^e DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIMER; IRON OXIDE; LITHIUM ION;

ANISOTROPIC MEDIUM; CHEMICAL BONDING; DIAGRAM; IRIDIUM; LATTICE DYNAMICS; LITHIUM; OXIDE;

AB INITIO CALCULATION; ACCELERATION; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DIMERIZATION; MAGNETISM; NEUTRON SCATTERING; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY;

EID: 84954477632     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms10273     Document Type: Article

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