Nature Communications (Apr 2018)

Spin-lattice decoupling in a triangular-lattice quantum spin liquid

  • Takayuki Isono,
  • Shiori Sugiura,
  • Taichi Terashima,
  • Kazuya Miyagawa,
  • Kazushi Kanoda,
  • Shinya Uji

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04005-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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A number of materials have been proposed as realizations of exotic quantum spin liquids but many important properties are difficult to establish. Isono et al. show evidence for spin-lattice decoupling in an organic material, which may help resolve conflicting results about the existence of a spin-excitation gap.