Nature Communications (Dec 2016)

Atomic-scale observation of structural and electronic orders in the layered compound α-RuCl3

  • M. Ziatdinov,
  • A. Banerjee,
  • A. Maksov,
  • T. Berlijn,
  • W. Zhou,
  • H. B. Cao,
  • J.-Q. Yan,
  • C. A. Bridges,
  • D. G. Mandrus,
  • S. E. Nagler,
  • A. P. Baddorf,
  • S. V. Kalinin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13774
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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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.