Proximate Kitaev quantum spin liquid behaviour in a honeycomb magnet

Nature Materials

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 733-740

  Banerjee, A ^a   Bridges, C A ^a   Yan, J Q ^a,b   Aczel, A A ^a   Li, L ^c   Stone, M B ^a   Granroth, G E ^a   Lumsden, M D ^a   Yiu, Y ^c   Knolle, J ^d   Bhattacharjee, S ^e,f   Kovrizhin, D L ^d   Moessner, R ^e   Tennant, D A ^a   Mandrus, D G ^a,b   Nagler, S E ^a,c  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b University of Tennessee   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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

^f TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXCITED STATES; GROUND STATE; HONEYCOMB STRUCTURES; NEUTRON SCATTERING; QUANTUM OPTICS; STACKING FAULTS; TEMPERATURE; TOPOLOGY;

DYNAMICAL CALCULATIONS; DYNAMICAL RESPONSE; EXCITATION SPECTRUM; EXPERIMENTAL IDENTIFICATION; INELASTIC NEUTRONS; QUANTUM INFORMATION; QUANTUM SPIN LIQUID; TWO DIMENSIONAL NATURE;

QUANTUM THEORY;

SPIN LABEL;

CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COLD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MAGNET; MAGNETIC FIELD; QUANTUM THEORY; RADIATION DOSE; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY;

COLD TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; QUANTUM THEORY; RADIATION DOSAGE; SOLUTIONS; SPIN LABELS;

EID: 84979463284     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat4604     Document Type: Article

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