Nature Communications (Dec 2016)
Atomic-scale observation of structural and electronic orders in the layered compound α-RuCl3
Abstract
The two-dimensional Kitaev model is a quantum spin liquid state that theory predicts should appear in some materials with a honeycomb lattice. Here, the authors use atom-resolution scanning transmission electron and scanning tunnelling microscopies to characterize one such candidate material, α-RuCl3.